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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
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Tag Archives: fear
Snake fear and love
Dear Holy, Yesterday I walked up your road noticing your sweet fall wild aster, brown dying ferns, gravel stones beneath these feet. You showed yourself as a snake lying in the dirt. Perhaps hit by a fast-moving truck. Your head … Continue reading
Posted in September 2021
Tagged fear, lessons, life, love, nature, presence, snake, spirituality, teaching
29 Comments
Concerned
Feeling heavy-hearted and concerned this morning for a loved one who may have been exposed to the virus. I can’t share any personal details right now. Thinking about any of you who may be worried about loved ones in these … Continue reading
Posted in What the Heart Knows
Tagged concern, COVID, fear, peace, practice, prayer, spirituality, virus
36 Comments
Covid in our neck of the woods
Feeling tense the last couple of days about covid. The only time I felt real fear was on March 14th last winter when we locked down…as the mind imagined all sorts of possible sickness and death scenarios. But cases are … Continue reading
Posted in What the Heart Knows
Tagged affirmation, cases, coronavirus, COVID, family, fear, feelings, friends, holy, Michigan, prayer, scared, spirituality, Upper Peninsula, virus, What the Heart Knows
33 Comments
Worry stew
It’s been so easy to get caught up in worry stew this year. Whether about the pandemic, politics, global warming, money issues, jobs, race relations, hurricanes, tornados, fires…you name it, 2020 has been a challenging one for our nervous systems. … Continue reading
Posted in What the Heart Knows
Tagged affirmation, anxiety, blogging, comfort, fear, God, heart, inspiration, intention, pandemic, prayer, worry stew
33 Comments
Keeping an open heart
One of the hardest challenges in life–I think–is cultivating and keeping our hearts open. I don’t know about you, but I learned quickly in life that an open heart can be a big liability. Often, when we speak and share … Continue reading
Posted in April, 2019
Tagged expression, fear, heart, inspiration, life, love, opening, social media, spirituality, truth, vulnerability
40 Comments
Breathing with trees
Yesterday I sat with my back against an ash tree. Its top branches waved in the wind about 85 feet above my head. Barry had pointed out the ash earlier as we peered at it from the kitchen window. “Look … Continue reading
Posted in November 2018
Tagged ash trees, breath, conditioning, contemplation, culture, emotions, fear, feelings, meditation, roots, spirituality, thoughts, trees
50 Comments
Finding our true voices
The other morning Pam (Roughwighting) and I yakked on an early morning phone date. We’ve connected with our voices on the telephone on and off for a couple of years now. We talk about creativity, writing, mothers, dreaming, jobs, books … Continue reading
Posted in January 2018
Tagged blogging, confidence, creativity, expression, fear, journalism, life, public speaking, roughwighting, thoughts, voices, writing
38 Comments
To learn how to sit in the scary woods of the mind
“Do you really,” my good friend asked, “want to be an old woman who can’t remember things? Do you really want to lose all your faculties?” Sigh. She had read my latest blog post. “Ummm, no,” said I. “If the … Continue reading
Posted in December, 2016
Tagged affirmations, awareness, fear, humor, intent, positive thinking, radiance, spirituality, woods
43 Comments
“I’m scared,” said Goldilocks to the Three Little Bears
On Sunday I wrote about cultivating the unexpected, about Elizabeth Gilbert’s book BIG MAGIC and about courting a life that refuses to stay in ho-hum ruts. Inspiration begged me to start a daily journal recording Unexpected Happenings during each day. … Continue reading
Posted in April, 2016, Unexpected
Tagged creativity, fear, humor, inspiration, intention, life, possibility, scared, Unexpected
45 Comments