Laura Ingalls Wilder or Jane Austin? Log cabin set in the American prairies or victorian mansion in the English countryside? Two very different settings, and yet I have always found a love for both. There is something so wonderful about getting lost in someone else’s story, set in a different time in history. There is…
As we attempt this journey to return to pre-pandemic “normal,” it seems that the rhythms that once worked are no longer working for many of us. Have you felt it? This push to return to “normal,” only to find the things that have returned to what was, feel far from normal? Perhaps it is because,…
A great deal of our lives is made up of tasks. The little details and habits of daily life, carried out with a sense of pleasure and beauty, can be just as important to us as the tea ceremony is to the Japanese. The way you handle the details of a meal or a bath,…
Jewish writer Avram Davis said, “We are what we practice. If we become angry a lot, then essentially, we are practicing anger. And we get quite good at it. Conversely, if we practice being joyful, then a joyful person is what we become.” The reality is we are practicing every single day the kind of…
Memories are made in the small moments as much as the significant events. Recently, on The Next Right thing podcast, Emily P Freeman began a journey with us of “discovering better decision-making habits by engaging our bodies, particularly our five senses.” As I’ve been resetting our home for the fall season, I have reflected on…
The words Kindness and Grace keep popping up, over and over, in my reading and podcast listening. Most of us understand that we need to show kindness and grace to others, especially now in this pandemic life, in the turmoil of political and racial division. The context of kindness and grace that keeps showing up…
