Papers have been signed, funding has been recorded. We are the official owners of a little homestead in the country.
Not surprisingly, I have become fairly sick. I have done pretty well this year handling stress, but I think this experience might have brought about one day too many of anxiety. So, with a couple of [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Random’
4 Dec
It’s Official
23 Oct
Someone Else’s Life
Yesterday I happened to be in the neighborhood of the school where I used to teach first grade. I was walking to a local pharmacy, and as I walked by the school, I looked into the school yard. Some class was just walking back from the computer lab. Girls in little jumpers were skipping, boys [...]
20 Oct
The unknown path
These days are full of joy and uncertainty. As the nightfall arrives earlier and the air begins to cool, we sit at the kitchen table each evening for dinner and the talk inevitably turns to the future. It’s exciting and scary in a new way; in the past our anticipation centered around the wedding (in [...]
31 Aug
The Wrath of Creation
Rob and I spent a weekend in retreat, but we couldn’t escape the major news of the area: a fire that, at this point, has consumed over 85,000 acres. Here’s the Saturday evening view from my parents’ house, about thirty miles from the closest point (to them) of the fire:
Apparently this fire is so strong [...]
25 Aug
Patience and Time
Patience and Time. These seem to be important messages in my life lately, but it became a very physical, very unavoidable message yesterday.
I don’t know how I did it, but I did it. A sudden, excruciating pain in my lower neck which made it difficult to look up, down, right or left suddenly overtook me [...]
17 Aug
One of Those Days
Sometimes only a picture can truly convey how one feels on a particular day. Our kitty Easter has helped me in expressing myself today through this wondeful depiction of my current emotions.
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.