Dear Friends, Today is a special day in my world, its the 4th anniversary of these Glimmers. I took a chance, four years ago, and said “yes” to the idea of sharing my little light with you. I didn’t expect it in the beginning,…
The elegant elephant joined the scene today, her wooden flanks reflected the morning sun. Yesterday saw the arrival of The Three Graces, their beauty enhanced by the ease in their bodies. Each day a new guest: Buddha, a blue heart, a candle… and so…
O when the saints, go marching in, O when the saints go marching in, Lord I want to be in that number, when the saints go marching in! Dear Friends, I’m a “small s saint.” There, I’ve said it. Out loud. I’m a “small…
Dear Friends, I was all set to write a Glimmer about “change” this month… and then I read the news I was preparing to pray about the changes around me..noisy construction down the street, the insistence of fall’s arrival, the rhythm of family life……
Dear Friends, Spider arrived today. I shouldn’t be surprised, she makes a home both inside and outside of our little lake house. It’s a spider-friendly environment. But when she walked into my life this time, I was cleaning a kitchen drawer…I was in a…
Dear Friends, When I woke up the second time, the sun was streaming through the window. “There is no doubt it’s morning.” The birds started singing even earlier, my first wake-up call, to announce the brand new day. These days, many hours are…
Dear Friends, Love given, love received…a gift for us all. Weddings reveal this precious exchange, a treasure found between human beings. Weddings, of all shapes and sizes, invite our hearts into their reality of hope, promise and joy. And we respond, don’t we? Our…
Dear Friends, The morning light shimmers on the lake. The dawn chorus greets the new day, sometimes before I’m ready to join them. Colors have erupted everywhere. Spring rain and Eastern wind have birthed new life right before my eyes. When I return to…
Dear Friends, Many years ago, during a season of reading science fiction, I entered the world of Ray Bradbury’s “All Summer in a Day.” It was the story about children on the planet, Venus, where “it had been raining for seven years; thousands upon…
Dear Friends, You have been in my heart this April, as this Glimmer simmered through the weeks of Lent, Passover and Easter. This time was a kind of a “spiritual crossroads” where the mists part and that which is holy peeks through.…