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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: love
The maze is your labyrinth
On the day before Gretel journeyed down to earth again and birthed in her mama’s belly, her spiritual angel reminded her about the purpose of Living on Earth. Remember, Gretel, in the deep recesses of your heart WHY you’re choosing … Continue reading
Posted in April 2022
Tagged angels, birth, Brothers Grimm, confusion, death, fairy tale, forest, found, Hansel and Gretel, heart, hope, life, lost, love, spirituality, story
30 Comments
Yesterday’s angry self-righteous rant at Walmart
You hear about these rants on the news. Angry airline passenger screams and carries on about wearing a mask. “Karen” loses it in supermarket. Man Lights Himself on Fire After New Year’s Rant Against Vaccine Mandates, according to Newsweek magazine. … Continue reading
“Love has your back”
Last August, while visiting my childhood home down in the Thumb of Michigan, I picked up a tattered copy of WILD MIND: Living the Writer’s Life by Natalie Goldberg. I bought it at the library uptown (Barry laughs when we … Continue reading
Posted in December 2021
Tagged 2022, blogging, creativity, inspiration, love, Natalie Goldberg, New Year's, spirituality, Wild Mind, writing
23 Comments
“Best of times, worst of times”
This has been a hard post to write. I have put it off for a week wondering what to say, how to express it, what to avoid sharing. As many of you know, we recently visited Barry’s elderly parents in … Continue reading
Posted in December 2021
Tagged dementia, elderly parents, family, Georgia, love, sadness, State Botanical Gardens of Georgia, trip, vacation
47 Comments
Turkey interrupto & other Thanksgiving chit chat
Thanksgiving, 2021 in our little house in the woods. Snowflakes tumble from the sky joining their brothers and sisters in a skiff of snow on the November landscape. Our wood stove hums in the basement heating the upstairs to a … Continue reading
Posted in November 2021
Tagged family, giving, gratitude, holiday, humor, love, sadness, stream-of-consciousness, Thanksgiving, turkey, Upper Peninsula
31 Comments
Calm, calm, oh you darling, calm
So very many of us are feeling jangled, jarred and jiggled these days. We’ve fear running amok in our veins at times. We’re scared of covid or vaccine mandates. We’re nervous about our health, our money, our mental health, our … Continue reading
Posted in November 2021
Tagged anxiety, calm, Deb Dana, fight or flight, love, meditation, pain, polyvagal theory, sadness, soothing, spirituality, sympathetic nervous system
35 Comments
Yet another miracle of blooming and letting go
Every autumn for twelve years I’ve wanted to share this with you. However, other priorities prevented it. Either I wasn’t blogging at the time or another post wanted to flower. However now–today–this very moment–it’s apparently time. Do you see the … Continue reading
Posted in November 2021
Tagged blooming, flowers, hope, inspiration, love, lupines, Michigan, milkweed, Miracle, nature, photography, spirituality, Upper Peninsula
39 Comments
Forest teaching about Intent and coming from love versus division
For years now, too many years to count, I’ve walked in the woods opening up to spiritual teachings. Ordinary thoughts go silent as the feet crunch dried leaves. An expanse opens, an inner reflection sometimes begins. Like a dream this … Continue reading
Posted in September 2021
Tagged division, ego, forest, intent, life, love, nature, psyche, spirituality, thoughts
40 Comments
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
Lonely at Christmastime?
Here we are. Sitting at the doorstep of Christmas, knocking. Hello, Christmas, 2020. How shall we celebrate you, herald you into our hearts this year? Many of us are alone or semi-alone this holy-day season. We’re isolating in family groups … Continue reading
Posted in What the Heart Knows
Tagged alone, Christmas, feelings, isolation, loneliness, lonely, love, meditation, reaching out, relaxation, rest, self-care, spirituality
26 Comments