I am grateful for all the people I’ve met…
Who have helped me with these three principles
to keep in touch…
How you can never laugh too hard
never sing too loudly
and never love too much.
Saturday, July 11, 2026
LIFE AND LOVE
May we be blessed to understand the beauty of love…
How even when a person we love is gone
Though their life has indeed ended
our love for them lives on.
THE LIGHT THEY LEFT BEHIND
How do we deal with the loss of someone we hold dear…
a family member, a partner, a husband or a wife…
a person who we can’t remember a time
when they weren’t important in our life?
We tend to curse time at these moment…
forgetting she can be our enemy…and our friend.
For she helps mark the joys of each new beginning
as well as the sorrow of each end.
How many joyous moments have we experienced
when we wished time would move ahead slow?
Where the happiness of that moment
makes us sad to see that moment go.
How many sorrowful moments have we looked for time to blame?
We curse the arrival of these moments and wish they never came.
But living in moments that are ephemeral and swift
makes me stop and wonder if…perhaps…that is time’s gift.
Perhaps time does not intend to vex, to aggravate and annoy
Perhaps she is only seeking balance between our sorrow and our joy.
Perhaps that’s why our yesterdays quickly become todays
and our todays just as quickly become tomorrows
to give our joy more opportunities to overtake our sorrows.
This ability to look into the futures as well as back into our past
Is how time helps to soothe our heart and ease our mind…
Showing us one way to climb out of our darkness
is to follow the light they behind.
Thursday, July 9, 2026
DAILY GRATITUDE FEELING OF HOME
I am grateful wherever I have lived
how within me the feeling of home is strong…
It’s the place I love and I am loved…
It’s where I know that I belong.
HOME
When we move from one place to another
may we be blessed to find…
home is all we’re taking with us
Not…what we leave behind.
OUR OLD HOUSE
We’ve lived in our house for many years…
It’s been the subject of many a poem…
We often wonder when was the exact moment
our house became our home…
We have loved living here
we’ve been blessed…this we know
It’s where we built our life together
where we watched our children and grand-children grow.
And as we prepare to move away
to a place where the mountains meet the sky
we feel blessed to have a few weeks alone
in our home to say goodbye.
To remember and relive all the fun we’ve had…
as we’re about to turn another page…
To marvel at how even though our house has grown older over the years
and our home has improved with age.
So we are savoring these last few weeks together
before a new family within these walls roams…
and we’re hoping it doesn’t take too long
for this house to become their home.
Tuesday, July 7, 2026
DEBORAH'S ROCKING CHAIR
After finding an old rocking horse in our attic…I was so excited
then I became aware…
on the other side of the attic
sat a dusty little rocking chair.
When I showed the chair to Deborah…
She was a little bit surprised…
“That’s my old rocking chair!” She said
as tears welled in her eyes.
She said, “Be extra careful while you move it.”
“I sat in that rocking chair when I was small
and I have the photo to prove it.”
With her chair in hand she ran off
and behold…
returned with a photo of her in that chair
when she was 3 or 4 years old.
In the photo she is sitting next to her sister, Pris
and it was easy for me to see…
how one little old rocking chair
brought back two cherished memories.
A memory of a young girl…and her childhood rocking chair…
And the memory of her sister…who is no longer sitting there…
I imagine the makers of this rocking chair
could not have guessed…would have never suspected
all the joy this chair would give…all the memories it collected.
I imagine they’d be overjoyed…If they were here to share
the look on Deborah’s face…
when she was reunited with her chair.
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