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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: sadness
Sad transitions
We lounged on the patio in my in-law’s backyard in early March. It was almost 80 degrees. A bluebird fluttered on the branch of a nearby magnolia tree and cardinals sang their sweet song in the fig tree. An hour … Continue reading
Posted in March 2022
Tagged cancer, dementia, family, Georgia, illness, nature, sadness, snow, Upper Peninsula
68 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
What I have learned during the pandemic
Every challenge in life has the potential to teach us so much. To open our closed eyes, to bring us nearer to inclusion and love, to allow us to ease the grip of human fear. What have you learned during … Continue reading
Posted in October, 2021
Tagged anger, challenge, COVID, forgiveness, judgment, opinions, pandemic, polarization, sadness, self-righteousness, spirituality, thoughts, virus
22 Comments
The home of our true heart
I find it so fascinating. If you write a blog post about being So done with it, So done with it you’ll get lots of people flocking over to read. If you scribble about annoyance, anger, restlessness, sadness, grief–here come … Continue reading
Posted in What the Heart Knows
Tagged emotions, heart, holy, humanity, joy, love, non-duality, sadness, spirituality, surrender
45 Comments
Bad girl, bad dog, bad person: don’t beat yourselves up, please
Yesterday I still felt zamfizzled. If you are zamfoozled about what that means please click here. However, some chores were accomplished. Christmas decorations now deck the halls of our little house in the woods. We’re also smack-dab in the middle … Continue reading
Posted in What the Heart Knows
Tagged beating up, dogs, energy, enough, failure, happiness, holy, humanity, imperfection, love, purpose, sadness, spirituality, success
32 Comments
Zamfizzled
Yesterday proved to be one of those lie-about-on-the-couch-and-get-very-little-accomplished-days. Even though I had the best of intentions. Just no energy to clean, zing, zang, zip or zow. (I don’t know what zow means, but the Urban Dictionary says it’s an acceptable … Continue reading
Posted in What the Heart Knows
Tagged energy, etymology, holy, humans, humor, Internet, lazing, sadness, spirituality, virus, writing
41 Comments
Heartbreaking covid week in our community
It’s been such a challenging week in our rural Upper Peninsula county. Heartbreaking. So utterly sad. This morning our weekly newspaper, the L’Anse Sentinel (which my husband edits), hit the stands. The lead story quotes the administrator of Bayside Village … Continue reading
Posted in What the Heart Knows
Tagged Bayside Village, COVID, death, L'Anse, L'Anse Sentinel, prayers, sadness, Upper Peninsula
62 Comments