Month: December 2021

Winter Stillness

Winter Stillness

Today is Winter Solstice, the day of the year with the most hours of darkness and first day of winter in the Northern Hemisphere. Translated from Latin, solstice means “sun stand still” because at Solstice time, the sun’s path across the sky appears to freeze. This perfectly reflects how I’ve been feeling as well as what nature mirrors for us. I crave rest. I don’t want to be doing all the things I’m doing. I don’t really even want to think. I want to be still like the sun, nestle in the comfort of darkness, and just be. Maybe you […]

Witnessing the Storm

Witnessing the Storm

When I was a teenager and young adult, I lived in West Texas, a part of Tornado Alley. Every late spring to early summer, I lived in constant dread of the tragedy that ripped through the South and Midwest last week. Several times I witnessed the tell-tale green sky and even a funnel cloud once, but gratefully, I never experienced the devastation of an actual tornado. My heart aches for all who have. That witness role feels important to me at the moment. As I enter the darkness of winter, and heed nature’s call to go inward, I’m noticing some […]

Willie Nelson and inner peace

Willie Nelson and inner peace

I’ve been feeling a bit raw lately. Worry has taken over. I won’t go into detail here because others’ privacy is at stake. But I will say that it has crossed my mind that the gurus reported to have attained inner peace must not have had children. Peace is a practice, and we have to keep at it. And children or not, we all have things we worry about. The break-neck pace of world disasters constantly running in the background like a software program is enough to make anyone anxious, not to mention our individual challenges. Staying centered takes work, […]

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