-
Join 7,457 other subscribers
Want to find another post? Search & see what you find.
Oh how the months speed by…
-
The latest from Our Little House in the Big Woods
- Spring is bustin’ out all over (and a blogging milestone)
- Traveling from little house in the woods to big city on the coast
- Healing a broken toe, watching the snow melt
- The maze is your labyrinth
- Mindfulness, equanimity–and a broken toe
- The perils and ecstasy of walking on snow
- Loss and gain
- Sad transitions
- Snow, snow, snow and it’s really __ __ __ __ __
- Vegetable scrap smiley for our company
Read, read, read…months and months of photos and words…
Blogroll
- Bountiful Healing
- Bree's Mackinac Island Blog
- Breezes at dawn
- By the Sea
- Change is Hard
- Cindyricksgers
- Eastern Passage Passage
- Elisa's Spot
- Flandrum Hill
- Grains of Sand
- Home Life Online
- Isa Threads of Life
- Missouri Wilderness
- My Little Spacebook
- On the Homefront
- Pets, People and Life
- Purpleborough
- roughwighting
- Speaking from the Heart
- Spiral Visions
- Sundown Bayou
- The Reluctant Blogger
- The Spectacled Bean
- Travel Garden Eat
- Virginia Views
- Wanderings of an Elusive Mind
The times folks have paused along Lake Superior Spirit's shores since 2010
- 577,621 views
Monthly Archives: January 2011
“If your friends jumped in the lake in January, would you?”
Did any of your mothers ever tell you: “If your friend jumped off a cliff, would you?” Your mother meant: “Hey, kid! Think for yourself! Don’t just be a follower. Don’t jump in the lake in January just because your … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged fun, Hancock, Heikinpaiva, ice, Lake Superior, outdoors, photography, Polar Plunge, Portage Canal, snow, Upper Peninsula, winter
26 Comments
From Lions to Bears to Reindeer…Welcome to Heikinpaiva!
Yoko Onomaki and John Lennoniemi (you have to realize that lots of the Finns who settled around the Upper Peninsula have last names like “Maki” and “Niemi”) handed out the words to the song they sang: “Imagine … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged cold, Finlandia, Finnish, Hancock, Heikinpaiva, Keweenaw, Lake Superior, Michigan, Michigan Technological University, parade, photography, reindeer, Upper Peninsula, winter
18 Comments
Secrets we don’t share…
I have been thinking about the things we don’t share. We all know what we share. We share about good things, happy things, pondering things, challenging things…but what don’t we share? It’s always interesting to look at what we don’t … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged blogging, discomfort, energy, gall bladder surgery, gratitude, healing, life, musings, nature, pain, patterns, revelations, secrets, sharing, sickness, thoughts
55 Comments
Patterns
Look closer at everything you see. Patterns reveal themselves everywhere! Repeated spirals, repeated movements, repeated colors, repeated spirals, repeated beautiful patterns. Nature patterns itself endlessly, and we humans do, too. What is it about patterns that appeals to us? What … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged awareness, finches, life, musings, patterns, photography, random, thoughts
27 Comments
First you shoot your food…then you eat it.
I suppose you think I’m talking about shooting rabbits, right? Making booyah (as they call rabbit stew around here, even though Wikipedia says it’s made with beef, chicken or pork). Or maybe you think we’ve shot a deer and we’re … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged assignment, blogging, booyah, dinner, food, humor, life, orzo, photography, recipes, Scott Thomas, Views Infinitum
48 Comments
Shouldn’t it be illegal to wake up at 4 a.m?
OK, it’s 4:34 a.m. now. I have brewed a cup of coffee and laced it liberally with hazelnut creamer. Posted my status on Facebook: “Shouldn’t it be illegal to wake up at 4 a.m.? Too many creative ideas brewing…” (No, no, … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged bed, creativity, Facebook, family, gratitude, home, hot bunking, humor, life, Mind, Miscellaneous, musings, personal, sleep, status, thoughts
37 Comments
When a log lands on your toe…will you remember your gratitude practice?
Wham! Bang! Last night I reached down to pick up a log for the woodstove. The log slipped down to the floor–unto my sock-covered big toe. OWWWWW! You know how you’re tempted to curse the log and life and, … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged awareness, divine, Donny Osmond, Facebook, gratitude, humor, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, joy, life, log, Miscellaneous, musings, optimism, pain, positive thinking, sacred, Upper Peninsula, winter, woods
42 Comments
Lake Superior Spirit 