Dear Friends, As I begin this April Glimmer, my mind and heart turns to each of you. It really does! I’ve heard from enough of you to realize that we’re in a conversation – even if it happens only once a month. I have…
Dear Friends, Thinking of you on this snowy Sunday in Connecticut. Another storm for New England, requiring acceptance and adjustment…and snow shovels! I’ve been watching the birds this winter, pecking at the snow-frosted suet. I admire their patient flitting about, in and among the…
Dear Friends, A few years ago, I was driving in a long line of cars…. from the funeral to the burial of a good man. Traveling alone, I looked at the houses and tall trees. As I followed the car in front of me,…
I joined Dr. Gloria Horsley and Dr. Heidi Horsley on the Open To Hope podcast to talk about Spirituality and Grief.…
Dear Friends, Coming off the holiday time has given me lots of opportunity to think about family and love. I am so very blessed to have both. This photo, from our “family of choice,” captures a child’s delight in the Love around him, and…
Dear Friends, As 2014 comes to an end, I sit in wonder at the year’s lessons and transitions. If we are awake to it, life is filled with moments and invitations for deeper awareness. Some transitions are painful, of course, as we are hollowed…
Dear Friends, I am pondering the dance between technology and a reflective life…. Have you found yourself missing steps or tripping over yourself as you keep up with your newest device? Or are you madly following a new set of instructions, as if learning…
Dear Friends, I find I am falling under the yearly spell of falling leaves. Do you know what I mean? Do you feel a shift as summer turns to fall? We are, indeed, part of creation and, if we wish, can tune into the…
Dear Friends, “Light, dark, light, dark…..light……dark, light, dark…..light….” This was one of the favorite games we played with our young sons on road trips. Perhaps you’ve played it too? We traveled along in the car, surrounded by trees, the sunshine coming through the leaves…
Dear Friends, Have you been to Alki Beach in West Seattle, Washington? To me, it’s one of the most beautiful places on earth! The expanse of sandy beach and blue water is surrounded by a panoramic view of the Cascade Mountain Range,…