Inside the Minds of Valerie and Mike (and Anna)
GO! Go where? Go and…? Did you make New Year’s resolutions this year? Again? Because? Because this will be the year that they stick? Hmmm… Four years ago I switched over to picking a word for the year. Sometimes these are called star words. There’s a website, oneword365.com, where you can sign up with your... Continue Reading →
Tonight I get to sleep in my bed, on my pillows, after being out of the house for three months. October 8, 2021 we headed out that Friday morning to St. Louis. While we were only gone a week, we haven’t slept in our house until tonight. Home explains a bit about what happened. Shortly... Continue Reading →
The word epiphany comes from the Greek ἐπιφάνεια meaning “to make manifest, to show forth, to appear”. We use it when we have those “aha! moments”, when something becomes clear that wasn’t previously. But what was being revealed at Epiphany? What do we see, that we hadn’t before? Anam Cara Ministries, Facebook post 1/5/22 Apocalypse, per... Continue Reading →
The Sea of Cortez way beyond. On a recent trip to Mexico, the third attempt at this trip due to the pandemic, I started photographing portals, windows and doorways. The resort we were staying at provided plenty of portals. As I look at the portals I’ve tagged as my favorites, I’m noticing the elements that... Continue Reading →
Home…this year’s reflection focus for Advent and the season of Christmas. Sounds pretty light and comforting doesn’t it? Except that the concept of home can bring a range of emotions, conjure a variety of memories, and is experienced is different ways physically, emotionally, and spiritually at different times of our lives and around the globe.... Continue Reading →
Pearls, treasures, wants, dreams Foolish, risky, courageous, daring Detachment, redefining, recognition, living All these words and ideas came out during a discussion of a very short story. A story of only 32 words by Jesus. Yes, one of the parables. I’m participating in a series of discussions focused on the book, Short Stories by Jesus. The author... Continue Reading →
I recently read a post proposing that we were designed or meant to hold and respond to the hardships that happened in our village, not the world, and that we are suffering from our emotional circuit breakers being overloaded. I get it. It’s been an exhausting five and half years…at least. As citizens of the world, more... Continue Reading →
What is hopefully, and looking like, the end of the pandemic for us on the East Coast, is also as I write this, the middle of the emergence of billions, maybe trillions, of Brood X 17-year cicadas. And the epicenter is here, metro Washington, DC. We are out in the suburbs but not in the... Continue Reading →
I seem to be working from a place of urgency lately. We have had some projects going on at home that I’m suddenly aware of feeling as though I’m nesting. Last month we cut down a maple tree in our front yard and we still have the logs gathered together and to the side. We... Continue Reading →
It’s spring, and the gorgeous Kwanzan cherry trees are at peak bloom here in metro DC. While we’ve had a bit of rain this spring, we’ve also had some spectacularly clear blue skies. The fig tree is putting forth shoots, gifted lilies of the valley plants are finally showing buds this year, and while a... Continue Reading →
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