This week has been an eventful one. After the snowstorm, my sickness just kept going downhill. For the first time since I had mono, I just couldn’t fight it off without help. I think a lot of it had to do with lots of stress and little sleep–stuff that I can usually let roll off [...]
Posts Tagged ‘beauty’
19 Oct
These many beautiful days
These many beautiful days cannot be lived again. But they are compounded in my own flesh and spirit, and I take them in full measure toward whatever lives ahead.
-Daniel Berrigan, SJ
24 Sep
Autumn
One of my favorite parts of our Utah trip was being able to be present to the onset of autumn. The southern part of the state had just begun to see its early nights of frost, especially in the higher elevations (this was taken at around 9,000 feet). It seemed a sacred thing to be present [...]
22 Sep
Stillness
I think that one of my favorite parts about being in Southern Utah was the stillness that descended upon us both. We were removed, inaccessible by phone, email, facebook, twitter, and anything else that could threaten to preoccupy us, to tear us away from the awesome glory that lay before us with each new journey.
Stillness, [...]
14 Sep
Deepening Relationships
Today we spent the day volunteering with the horses at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary. It was physically demanding–15,000 steps on my pedometer at 4:30pm–and deeply rewarding. We learned of the passing of some of our old horse friends, and were introduced to some of the newbies to Best Friends. We spent time with those we [...]
13 Sep
The Journey Begins
“Every now and again take a good look at something not made with hands—a mountain, a star, the turn of a stream. There will come to you wisdom and patience and solace and, above all, the assurance that you are not alone in the world.” –Sidney Lovett
Yesterday my birthday began with waking up at 5am [...]
12 Sep
Birthday Wishes
On this day of my birth, I feel grateful for all of the blessings in my life. Thank you, Lord, for the growth of this past year, even the more difficult of growing pains. Thank you for the joys, for the new revelations of your love, for the opportunities. Thank you for the dreams. Thank [...]
4 Sep
Ancient Beauty
“We did not think of the great open plains, the beautiful rolling hills, the winding streams with tangled growth, as ‘wild.’ …To us it was tame. Earth was bountiful and we were surrounded with the blessings of the Great Mystery.” – Luther Standing Bear, chief of the Oglala Lakota, 1905-1939
Recently I have been more curious [...]
26 Aug
Death in a Faith of Life
As I finished typing the last few words of an outline for a talk I’ll be giving in a month and a half, I felt a the creaks of a body that had been sitting for far too long today in front of a computer. The weather was beautiful and the sun was calling me outdoors, [...]
26 Jul
“I hear the rolling thunder…”
“…Thy power throughout the universe displayed…”
I love weather. I just can’t help it. It brings out the little child from within me and I squeal like I was 5 years old.
We have been blessed this week with some pretty awesome thunderstorms. Thunderstorms, to me, are among my favorite of the extreme weather occurrences. I think [...]
Just a joyful Catholic girl trying to live as simply and consciously and gratefully as possible in this beautiful, amazing world...and bringing as many as possible along for the ride.