Chandler

We seldom see the word worn standing by itself.  It is a descriptive label often used when we think it’s time to get a pair of new jeans or a set of new tires too worn to keep.  What happens when we apply that word worn to cycles in the universe, politics, tribalism, and the […]

This is It! This is it! This is it!  Yes, one moment at a time, we are where we are. We may think about where we have been and the many things we have done. Yet, they are the past.  We are now.  This is it! We can plan a day, a week, a year,

Sidetracked is in the air when we find ourselves forced into new patterns of any kind. Our inner focus can no longer work in automatic. When we rearrange the house under the influence of spring cleaning, all our patterns are challenged. Crunched paper flying toward the wastebasket may smack into the bookcase because the furniture

We appear to be in unmapped territory, as we find our way through coronavirus, protests, instabilities, climate change, and potential war and riots around the world. Perhaps it is time to become unwrapped rather than feeling unmapped. I have to ask, “What is my part in my family, my community, my state, and my country?”

“Golly, when I was in high school, Miss Baker was a real tough English teacher.  In her mind, nearly everything was either right or wrong. There was no middle.  If you ever confused an adverb with an adjective, she’d threaten to hit your hand with a ruler as she was passing your paper back and

In these days and hours of a quickening upon the planet, we appear to be moving into more chaos, arguments, wars, and political anarchy. Perhaps Pachamama, Mother Earth, is simply saying, “Enough,” thus allowing scum to bubble to the top.  Collectively, we are being called to change our relationships with one another and the environment.

“I don’t belong here is a bit of a conundrum since I am already here,” she thought. Her mind quickened into all the possibilities that may have led her to this place at this time. Then she pondered the message she awoke to in the early hours of the day. Birds were chatting, dogs howling

In my younger years, having been called “Little Mz Why” and later, “Pollyanna,” a word beyond my scope, I was never sure whether it was a compliment or a slam. With a few more years and a dictionary search, I found that many people are quite put off by a Pollyanna view while others are

The weather does what nature demands. We two-leggeds then make adjustments and choose an umbrella, a sombrero, ball-cap, or perhaps a wool scarf, to meet the weather’s demand. Similarly, our daily activities demand responses. We wake up each morning having to digest dreams, check the weather, interact with people, animals, spilled coffee, beautiful sunrises, blizzards,

Away we go in this ever-changing and challenging time on planet earth. We may awaken to a beautiful morning of fresh snow and feel the excitement to attach our skies to the car rack and head to the slopes for another exuberant day before spring comes too early in this time of rising temperatures. We