Have You Reached Your Summit?

Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it. – Andy Rooney There are times, in mid-step, I will pause and look to the mountain’s peak and wonder if I’ll ever make it. And then there are those other times, while considering if I […]

What We Carry, We Find

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. – Ralph Waldo Emerson I travel into town through a beautiful canyon everyday. When it’s early morning and the sun is just cresting the mountains behind me, the rays illuminate the canyon’s rocks and […]

Manufacturing Messiness? Not Today

Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be. – Jim Horning A friend offered me a picture while she spoke, one that I related to, this idea that all things are simple if done right. The word right is the stumbling block for me, because my perception is that there is a “right” […]

Our Stormy

One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child. – Randall Jarrell Last week our household was blessed with a new addition, a small kitten only a few weeks old. She is full-bodied white with calico-coloring on her head and […]

Following Guideposts

Your best teacher is your last mistake. – Ralph Nader If I’m willing to stay aware, I can find guideposts that lead me to where I may best grow. As a plant’s stock rises from the earth and it’s flower opens to the sun, change is required for it to blossom—the plant must grow to reach […]

What I Set My Eyes On Is What I See

Look and you will find it—what is unsought will go undetected. – Sophocles I think there are two sides to what Sophocles speaks of. I can look for a negative spin on life, all of what’s wrong and what will forever be wrong. Or I can seek the positive of life, those moments that recharge me with […]

90 & 10

If you’re doing your best, you won’t have any time to worry about failure. – H. Jackson Brown Oh, what a day, is all I can say. I was there, in this quote, drowning in the worry of failing…but then I wasn’t. I’ve found that 90% of the time I’m good with where I’m at—continuous effort and […]

RUMMAGING FOR WRITERS: Sandy W.

Searching for other writers is always a joy.

Broadswords and Shields

We think that by protecting ourselves from suffering we are being kind to ourselves. The truth is, we only become more fearful, more hardened, and more alienated. We experience ourselves as being separate from the whole. The separateness becomes like a prison to us, a prison that restricts us to our personal hopes and fears […]

Rummaging for Writers: Denise DiMarzio

Another writer found, one that pulled me into sadness and the waiting room of life: Denise DiMarzio’s poem For Crows and Old Men. At first, when reading, her words were just that, words, and then as I moved through, my eyes scanning, my mind translating and devouring, feeling crept in and I began to feel what he […]

Rummaging for Writers: Ani King

I search for other writers, tellers of story that envelope me, take me elsewhere, inspire me to think, feel, and, most of all, remember. Today I found Ani King on Sixpenny & Co. Her piece Music Our Mothers Made reminded me of many things, how I used to live my life, the crazed adventure of any given day, […]

Turn Back or Go Forward?

[Y]ou will do your best to succeed, but in spite of that, many times you will fail. That is the nature of the world, and the truth of life. But when you find your horse again, will you go back, or will you go forward? – Robert McCammon, The Queen of Bedlam McCammon’s words jumped from the page […]