Dear Friends, How are you as this new month arrives? Although its raining today at Lake Beseck, the promise of summer has already lifted our hearts and opened the windows. Time to pause and reflect… Years ago, I was given this little story and subsequently…
Dear Friends, This May Glimmer comes just as the leaves are starting to show themselves in Connecticut. It was a long winter here, as you know, and Spring seems to be shy about arriving. Most of the people I talk to about the weather…
Dear Friends, As I begin this April Glimmer, my mind and heart turns to each of you. It really does! I’ve heard from enough of you to realize that we’re in a conversation – even if it happens only once a month. I have…
Dear Friends, Thinking of you on this snowy Sunday in Connecticut. Another storm for New England, requiring acceptance and adjustment…and snow shovels! I’ve been watching the birds this winter, pecking at the snow-frosted suet. I admire their patient flitting about, in and among the…
Dear Friends, A few years ago, I was driving in a long line of cars…. from the funeral to the burial of a good man. Traveling alone, I looked at the houses and tall trees. As I followed the car in front of me,…
I joined Dr. Gloria Horsley and Dr. Heidi Horsley on the Open To Hope podcast to talk about Spirituality and Grief.…
Dear Friends, Coming off the holiday time has given me lots of opportunity to think about family and love. I am so very blessed to have both. This photo, from our “family of choice,” captures a child’s delight in the Love around him, and…
Dear Friends, As 2014 comes to an end, I sit in wonder at the year’s lessons and transitions. If we are awake to it, life is filled with moments and invitations for deeper awareness. Some transitions are painful, of course, as we are hollowed…
Dear Friends, I am pondering the dance between technology and a reflective life…. Have you found yourself missing steps or tripping over yourself as you keep up with your newest device? Or are you madly following a new set of instructions, as if learning…
Dear Friends, I find I am falling under the yearly spell of falling leaves. Do you know what I mean? Do you feel a shift as summer turns to fall? We are, indeed, part of creation and, if we wish, can tune into the…