The Grandfather Tree

Hiking has been a life-long love; the woods are a wondrous place, ever changing. I can hike the same trails each year and leave having recognized much, but the trail and flora and fauna have changed. They move. They bend. They morph. There is life. It’s my happy place and it soothes. I never tire…

Strength

“I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.”  ~ Anna Quindlen

Hope Springs

Don’t turn away; Keep your gaze on the bandaged place. This is where the light enters you. ~ Rumi I post once again with a very heavy heart in honor of our dear friends, the family whose son took his life last weekend. Days later their daughter tried to take hers. She was unsuccessful. Through…