Always been one of my favorite songs. I definitely made the other four family children sing it to our parents once (as I recall I made everyone wear all white too – ah cliche) one summer. And this is an amazing version. (thank you, Superhero Journal) Email this post
(iPhone picture of Nantucket sunset) I adore this post of Meg Casey’s, The Dream that is Living Me. I find it so reassuring, because while I feel major shifting going on in the deepest parts of me, I also realize my external life looks the same. It is heartening to hear that despite feeling like [...]
I love Danielle’s post about “what your repulsions have to say about you.” It is, as usual, wise and concise. (sidenote: I can’t wait to meet Danielle this weekend!) I’ve been thinking about what really pisses me off. I have tons of little annoying peeves, but what really really aggravates me and grosses me out [...]
I have a rugged faith in the goodness of the human heart, a defiant sense that people are good at their core. I may come across as sarcastic sometimes, but I am not cynical. Fundamentally, I believe that people are trying their best and that if they stumble it is not out of any bad [...]
Found this little bit of memory on a blog I stumbled across, Samosas for One. Instantly I was back in the room of a fellow freshman, a guy from Texas, I think, and I remember a big Texas flag hanging on the wall (I don’t think I ever went into someone from Texas’s room without [...]
My immune system needs help. Help! The children have been back at school for a mere two weeks when I came down with a nasty flu. Started coughing on Saturday, and by Sunday night I felt lousy. This is day three in bed and I’m starting to feel a bit better but still not great. [...]
Dover Beach – Matthew Arnold (the last stanza is the best known, but the whole thing is worth a re-read) The sea is calm to-night.The tide is full, the moon lies fairUpon the straits; on the French coast the lightGleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand;Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.Come [...]
My morning – nay, my week or month – was made this morning when I read Ronna Detrick’s post. Ronna, I am so honored that you included my words. And then to have Kelly Diels, another writer who I so enormously admire comment, was icing. Thank you both. I’m in bed with yucky cold/flu right [...]
And that’s how Whit got to school. I didn’t quite understand the jocular smiles I was getting from other parents this morning until I walked into the classroom and his teacher exclaimed, “It’s picture day!” Oh. Right. Grace was similarly “au naturel” this morning and both were wearing tee shirts (and I know for a [...]
There’s been a proliferation of interesting writing on the topic of Why We Blog this week. Ronna addressed it, focusing on three main points: that blogging is a way to get outside ourselves, is therapeutic, and is a way to tell our stories. She asserted, and I agree, that we all have myriad stories to [...]
