to those who have a great relationship with their mom, I see you ♥️to those who have a strained or tense relationship with their mom, I see you ♥️to those who have a great relationship with their child(ren), I see you ♥️to those who have a strained or tense relationship with their child(ren), I seeContinue reading “happy and hard, hard and happy”
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Prayer in the Night
Tish’s first book, The Liturgy of the Ordinary, is one of my all time favorites, and this is one now, too. such a good and thorough and thoughtful look at grief, heaviness, sorrow, fear, pain, anguish — and hope, joy, peace, not despite those other things, but because of and in the midst of them.Continue reading “Prayer in the Night”
A Fatal Grace
tis the season for me to read all the series 📖A Fatal Grace is the second book in the Gamache series, and I truly loved it. I definitely want a marriage like the Gamaches have. “They’d take a picnic lunch of turkey sandwiches, fruit and cheese to Gamache’s office in the homicide division and spendContinue reading “A Fatal Grace”
10 year not-iversary
we all want a fairy tale, don’t we? when I was 21, I thought I had it all figured out. I’d met a guy, fallen in love. I was on track to finish college. we were young and everything was fresh and wonderful – and when he showed up at my parents’ house with aContinue reading “10 year not-iversary”
What Kind of Woman
I thoroughly enjoyed reading Kate Baer’s collection What Kind of Woman during this year’s national poetry month. “This is not a dress rehearsal before a better kind of life. Pick up your heavy burdens and leave them at the gate. I will hold the door for you.” “For now just remember how you felt theContinue reading “What Kind of Woman”
Isaac’s Storm + Thunderstruck
I read two books by Erik Larson recently, and I read Thunderstruck on audiobook. Isaac’s Storm covers the devesation wreaked by the great hurricane that struck Galveston TX in Sept 1900. it is set against the hubris of man at the turn of the century, and like all of Larson’s books, a true page-turner. Isaac’sContinue reading “Isaac’s Storm + Thunderstruck”
dreams and other questionable griefs
I’ve never really been one for dreams. I’m about 1/3 of the way through a two-year spiritual direction training program, and we recently did a series on dreams and dream interpretation. what animals mean, what themes to pick up on, what our actions or tones could mean, and how we interact with our subconscious, andContinue reading “dreams and other questionable griefs”
perhaps the greater 