Create The Day – With Creative Movement

We’re always going here and there, doing this and that; right? We move about doing things from the moment we wake up to the moment we go to sleep. Maybe we even move in our sleep. So why do we need more movement? Some people would advocate for more rest and relaxation, and sometimes that…

Create The Day – With A Break

Yes, take a break now and then, a break from the hectic pace of life. I’m not talking about an all out vacation, that’s different because a lot of planning and activity usually goes into vacations. I also don’t mean a 15 minute coffee break at work. What I mean is to stop all activity…

Create The Day With A Little Help

Everyone needs a little help now and then. If someone were to say, “I don’t need any help, ever, from anyone”, well they would just be lying – to their self as well as to whomever they were saying this too. It’s just a fact of life that human existence is dependent on helping one another. Don’t…

Photo Challenge – Summer

Always the beach – Summer = Beach, waves, water, sun… And Mom’s garden, always lovely and peaceful, And people having a good time, a celebration, a weekend, a vacation… and the poppies in Wolfeboro, our summer retreat… Family trips to the zoo… flowers everywhere… and the beach, again, always, Summer = Beach

Goodness

“Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on…

My Favorite Things

The kids are grown and life is changing so this has caused me to think about how I will be spending the next 20 or 30 years. Of course someday I hope to be a grandmother and I’m sure that will become a favorite thing, but no one in our family is quite ready for…

Create The Day For Mom

Obviously we all know what’s coming – Mother’s day. It’s that wonderful day of the year that  we shower our mothers with cards, flowers, candy or other gifts in an effort to show our appreciation for her years of love, sacrifice, devotion and caring. Some people might look forward to celebrating this day, and others may…

My Symphony

“To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather that luxury; and refinement rather than fashion…to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never. In a word to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony.” William Ellery Channing, 1780-1842 American Minister

Create The Day – By Letting Go

  How does one create the day by letting go? A strange concept that came to my mind late last night after I realized that I had failed to create this post on Tuesday as scheduled. My thought was not just, “Oh well, I’ll do it tomorrow”, but it was more of a reflection of…

Create The Day – With A Smile

A simple random thought or memory draws the corners of my mouth up a bit, and my son might ask, “What are you smiling at?” The twittering of a bird on a tree branch outside my front door draws my attention; I gaze silently smiling as I watch his uncontrollable song. My cat jumps from the table…