There was a whir of wings, a little flash of grey and white, and a tiny bird landed on the outer edge of the deck. We held our breaths.

There are deer, birds, foxes, wildflowers and more. But you have to look. Lawrence looks with eyes that see things others tend to pass by.

Three parts to this post: COVID Info & Resources, Good News about COVID, and Fun Ways to Distract Yourself from Bad News. Read any or all!

Never really listened to the words for any Grateful Dead songs. True statement. Never listened to or looked at the words, fool that I was.

On the backside of that hill the incessant noise of traffic and construction was buffered out…so we could drink in the silence as well.

Sometimes I slow down enough to tune into a tree, enough--perhaps--to hear the trailing notes of an ancient song.

If I allow my mind to still, if I let go of my need to control, sometimes I ease into a quiet state where time does not hold me captive.

When others are grateful toward you for what you have done, it makes you want to do more for them. This has the same effect on...

Think of COVID protection as if it were Swiss cheese. Each slice has holes somewhere, but if we are strategic about the placement...

Lawrence and I share a trait that has always been a gift to us, but has proven to be especially helpful during the pandemic--we are both…

This is a good sequel for almost all of the tools I've shared over the last year. In fact, it is probably the most important concept of all.

When astronauts go through re-entry, they may be coming back home to some semblance of "normal" but no one expects re-entry to be simple.

Something so beautiful & unusual that it follows you around for days, rising again & again from hidden stairways of your heart...

I love to play with words & to read others who do that well. Here are three lighthearted--and cat-intense--poems. For fun!

Sometimes a tiny shift can solve a big problem...

And now for something completely different...a children's story, in verse, about a young girl and her great-grandmother. Just for fun.

So I started musing...wow, what if the universe is giving birth to itself? What if God is giving birth to the universe?

"You should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up inside of you until it touches everything..."

Here is the list of all the tools in all the toolkits so far. Or consider it an atlas of maps. Take what you like and leave the rest!

Hands are incredibly, marvelously, terribly important. We've all become hugely aware of that over the last few weeks...