Year: 2016

  • Agile Thinking Makes Connections. . .

      Agile Thinking Makes Connections No procedure is complicated if  allowed to draw itself from the boundaries which were once considered appropriate to it.  And any change necessary will be accommodated when proper procedures are instituted. I wonder the comment a friend made when I said I learned a philosophical principle during my woodworking that…

  • Around The Bend. . .

        When our David was twelve or thirteen,  he lay on his bed in the room he shared with  his brother and walked the walls in his stockinged feet.  When I get to be a star in the sky,  he said,  I will shine down and give power to help  people as they need…

  • We Are Stewards. . . Accountable. .

      It has been about five years since I started my blog at the insistence of a perceptive grandson who thought his grandmother should be heard.  So he set me up on my blog and I have been writing three and four times a week.  Poetry, essays and vignettes, excerpts and paradigms and observations.  Prayers…

  • With Peace As Natural As Breath To Us. . . .

    From my heart to yours,  I send my Christmas message.  In this holiest of seasons, where the desire for peace nudges all hearts no matter their persuasion,  let us give way to these highest and best of all emotions and act upon them.  By acting upon them until they are second nature to us,  in…

  • Do You Hear?. . . .

      Do You Hear?   Do I have more minutes to finish?   There was no time for answers because the little one with a dash was out of sight.   In a few minutes he was back and announced,  I finish.   Having learned to wait while private things were finished,  I waited again while he proceeded…

  • Beneath The Wings . . .

    Being the child that I was, rooted in memory  solidly, I could  not  help   being a trial to my mother.   Having  seven  other children  of normal  vintage  ,  she could   compare  easily  and wonder loudly  why I had to be different.  It was not by intent but by inclination  of  the  tree.…

  • The Power Within . . .

    The power to change the world  begins  with  the  intention  and  the  desire  to  change  ourselves  .   We   must become  the  person  we want someone  else  to be. We want the compassion , the love, the intelligence  ,  the strength,  the ability   to see the  larger picture, to see what they  …

  • Actions Are Stone . . .

    Do not be swayed by tears which well and have no basis in words of the person when actions pronounce another philosophy .  We can always well into tears but our actions   will betray us. ***** Do not accept apology for inadequate behavior when nothing is done to correct  it.  Apologizing  does not relinquish…

  • A Blessed World. . .

    With  my life long  lack of physical prowess  ,  it is with  despair  I faced  getting  from  one place to another .  Long  plane rides  always had me looking   for either a pharmacy   or a doctor  .   It was not fun. Even as  old as I am, recuperation from a journey takes…

  • An Ever Fixed Mark . . .

      love is. . . an ever fixed mark that looks   on tempests  and is never shaken. . it is a star to every   wandering   bark. . . Shakespeare   I awakened with these   lines committed  .  I who never commits her own work   to memory and realized  that this…