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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: musings
What I really want to say…
I’m in downstate eastern Michigan lounging alone on my mom’s flowered pastel couch with the deep aroma of coffee beckoning. The tattered book “Wild Mind” by Natalie Goldberg peers up from the round glass table. Write, write, write, Natalie urges … Continue reading
Posted in August 2021
Tagged family, life, Michigan, musings, Natalie Goldberg, personal, spirituality, thoughts, writing
41 Comments
The medicine way
On June 10th the lupine theater played for a full house. They perfumed, awed, and colored the landscape extraordinarily. We onlookers gushed at their purple, pink and white symphony and deeply inhaled their essence. Their lupine-ness shined superb; never were … Continue reading
Posted in July, 2016
Tagged impermanence, life, lupines, medicine way, musings, mystery, nature, photography, plants, spirit, thoughts
60 Comments
Icicles, Mist, and the Road Less Traveled
When mist rises from ice-melting rivers and streams, magic ensues. When ice dresses branches and twigs, the world is transformed for an instant, an hour, a brief respite. Winter yawns, thinking it might stretch out another month or two here … Continue reading
Posted in April, 2016
Tagged inspiration, musings, nature, photography, the road less traveled, thoughts, Upper Peninsula
24 Comments
In which Gulliver gets tied up and we eat green bean casserole
Tonight six or seven or maybe eight of us will sit around living room chairs at Mary’s house to discuss our latest Book Club selection. You want to know the exciting name of our selection? Gulliver’s Travels. Which yours truly did … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Book Club, books, green bean casserole, Gulliver's Travels, humor, life, musings, personal, reading, thoughts, writing
68 Comments
A bedroom full of trees and other ordinary musings
1. It’s nice to be able to post blogs “whenever I feel it” after a two month experiment with once-a-week blogging. It truly was a lovely experience. So much time and space opened up for reflection, for walking in spring … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged blogging, family, garden, life, Michigan, musings, personal, piebald deer, snake, thoughts, Upper Peninsula
58 Comments
“And I thought you were JUST a housewife from Michigan!”
OK, OK, you gleaned the truth from that title, didn’t you? There is a tiny part of me–just a tiny part–that still, after all these years, feels insignificant. As a creative blogger, I am still trying to soothe the indignant … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged blog, family, inspiration, life, musings, personal, spirituality, thoughts, writing
82 Comments
Impossibility
Keep your eye open for impossibility today. Miracles surround us…
I will not wear a bikini and jump in the frozen lake today.
The Informal Schedule of my day in the north woods. 1) Wake up at 6:20 a.m. (Actually, I wake up at 5:32 a.m. 5:45 a.m. 6:01 a.m. You know, think a little bit. Try not to think a little bit. … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged humor, journal, life, Miscellaneous, musings, personal, thoughts
51 Comments
I wish you the very best. Always.
I am thinking about my friends this evening. One friend awaits to discover tomorrow if lymphoma has deepened inside her; how far cancer extends its ever-extending reach. Another friend nurses her parents; one with Parkinson’s Disease, the other with neurological … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged friends, joy, life, Miscellaneous, musings, suffering, thoughts
46 Comments