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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: simplicity
Balance for a troubled heart–staying close to the simple, the ordinary, the real
So many of our hearts seem troubled these days. We’re worried about politics, the state of the nation, the trials of the world, the gullies of the universe. We’re pained about health, trapped children, money, jobs, relationships, pressures. We’re feeling … Continue reading
Posted in July 2018
Tagged beauty, honesty, inspiration, joy, love, ordinary, simple, simplicity, thoughts, troubled heart, well-being, woes
50 Comments
Sleeping beneath the Mackinac Bridge last night
Today’s photo prompt from April Love 2018 is Simplicity. Alas, the last twenty-four hours have been anything but simple. Twenty four hours ago Barry and I were eating Easter dinner (turkey, potatoes, gravy, stuffing) and chatting casually about this and … Continue reading
Posted in April 2018
Tagged April Love 2018, family, humor, love, Mackinac Bridge, Michgan, simplicity, spontaneity, St. Ignace, travel
24 Comments
Where the heck ARE you, anyway?
I have received such wonderful comments and emails lately asking such questions as, “When are you returning to blogging? When are you coming back to Facebook? Where the heck ARE you, anyway?” Dear friends, I don’t know how to answer … Continue reading
Posted in December 2014
Tagged blogging, friends, life, personal, quiet, simplicity, tatsoi, thoughts
96 Comments
Sweet melancholy
I am very melancholy this morning. Not trying to change it. Not trying to make everything happy and cheerful. Simply watching this mood and honoring its arrival. It may have departed before you read this blog. Autumn can bring sweet … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged autumn, photography, simplicity, spirituality, thoughts, Upper Peninsula
44 Comments
Take Three. “What Lake Superior Spirit is about.”
It’s time. I went and changed it. Finally. For about six months I’ve been thinking, “Gosh, Kathy, isn’t it time you changed your description about this blog?” Laziness answered, “No, I don’t have time.” But the necessity kept arising. I … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged blogging, change, Lake Superior Spirit, life, Miscellaneous, musings, Opinion, personal, simplicity, thoughts, Upper Peninsula, woods
19 Comments
I want to live on an island.
Let’s be honest. Part of me wants to live on an island. The other parts are completely satisfied living in our Little House in the Big Woods in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. The part that wants to live on an island thrilled … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged dreams, Huron Islands, islands, Isle Royale, Lake Superior, Lake Superior Magazine, life, Michigan, Miscellaneous, musings, photography, simplicity, thoughts, trees, Upper Peninsula, Wisconsin
60 Comments
The quietest Labor Day bridge walk in Michigan
Hello, everyone. Just trying to fit a blog in between a busy day of going to town, visiting friends, the first day of my official new work year (school started yesterday and I am shifting my part-time hours from early morning … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged bridge walk, friends, lake, life, Michigan, nature, peace, personal, simplicity, swimming, thoughts, Upper Peninsula
23 Comments
Live the questions now…
I am still pondering this August theme of peace and simplicity (announced assuredly and confidently in the first blog of this harvest month.) Naively, I assumed it would be a breeze, a piece of cake, an easy assignment to contemplate … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged awareness, Dilly Beans, garden, intention, life, musing, peace, personal, Queen Anne's Lace, questions, Rainer Maria Rilke, simplicity, thoughts
29 Comments
Not headed to Hollywood any time soon.
I made a movie this morning. You know, put the camera on “Movie” setting and filmed a Hollywood epic. In my movie the stars were trees and flowers and plants and the sunrise. You guys should see and hear the … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged camera, family, films, humor, life, movies, musings, nature, outdoors, photography, simplicity, thoughts, trees, Upper Peninsula, wildflowers, woods
32 Comments
“Hey, Lady, you lost your peach!”
I don’t know about the rest of you bloggers. But for me, one of the best moments of the day comes when the Universe downloads a blog headline. (Or would that be “uploads a blog headline”?) I’ll be doing something random–like … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged blogging, gratitude, headlines, humor, life, musings, peace, peaches, personal, Scott Thomas Photography, simplicity, thoughts, titles
30 Comments