Monthly Archives: January 2015

Dear Reader: Buddha said, “If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.”   Do you remember this flower basket from last Easter when I bought it?…It stayed on the deck all summer … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: What is it about traveling to a new environment that keeps us in a state of anticipation and excitement? The whole time I was in Ireland I felt like a child on Christmas morning. I couldn’t sleep late … Continue reading →

The first week in October last year…I took three really big baskets of mums around to all my girls…Mandy, Mollie, and Kaitlyn. The baskets of flowers were gargantuan ….and filled with too many blooms to count…just waiting to burst open … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: I decided on the coldest day this year, in the “dead” of winter- we needed some warm “live” laughter! And who better to bring this to us than the late “Miss” Effie Wilder (Fran Townsend’s mother) with her … Continue reading →

  Dear Reader: Haven’t Monday and Tuesday been ‘picture-perfect’ examples of southern winter days? The sun has been out with a bone-marrow warmth to it…a great day for sitting on the deck and/or front porch…depending on the direction of the … Continue reading →

  Dear Reader: I came across this quote from Henry James and was so happy to “find” it again. I needed to be reminded of the importance of kindness. Henry James said, “Three things in human life are important.  The … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Have you ever considered that what “we seek to become, we already are?” When I read that line in a recent blog (Dancing with Monsters/Kate Wolfe- Jenson) I literally stopped reading, breathed a heavy sigh of relief, and sat … Continue reading →

  Dear Reader: One of my students gave me this eyeglass holder years ago. It sits by my computer to ‘supposedly’ hold one of umpteen pairs of reading glasses that I own…or it is supposed to…but each morning when I … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: I started thinking, the other day, how quickly the depth of gratefulness for life shallows, if we don’t consciously dedicate our awareness to it. If we don’t let the first thought each morning be one of gratitude for … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: ***Let me make this insertion on Friday, January 2….something just happened that I have been waiting for a long time….I woke up (8:00 a.m.) to 500 followers!!!!!!!!!! I have come close the last few days but it just … Continue reading →