Shining Moments

When change wrecks your life the life you have always known it is difficult to adjust. Outside they saw down the trees that have graced my home for the more than twenty years that I have lived here. The splintering of the wood is nothing like the shattered,...

Shining Moments

I talked to the trees    while I walked outside and shuffled in the autumn leaves. I pondered the lessons they have to tell    and what I can learn from them. So while some are pondering weighty subjects my thoughts are up higher so to speak. Trees so green in the...

Shining Moments

Her eyes met mine and I read her deep pain           and loss              and confusion. So what do you do when suddenly your mate of many years    dies    leaving you all alone? How do you begin again? she wondered. How do you fill the empty moments..     those...

Choosing Peace

Although it’s important to choose to see what we could do rather than what is, it is vital that we balance that with an acceptance of what is. Hmm, sound strange? Let me try to explain. A few days ago I badly bruised my right hand. For days I have not only been...