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Oh how the months speed by…
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The latest from Our Little House in the Big Woods
- “Keeps on keepin’ on”
- A mountain man lives in my mom’s basement.
- Is home where the heart is?
- Sleeping beneath the Mackinac Bridge last night
- All you bunnies out there…
- Ice fishing, robins, winner, Easter
- Keep giving away…
- Squirrel and chickadee love, February snow, and healing silence
- Palm trees, egrets, shrimp boats (and home again, home again, jiggety jig)
- Imagine you’re 90 years old.
Read, read, read…months and months of photos and words…
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Tag Archives: suffering
Gifts to give ourselves for Christmas
I don’t know about you, but I have a lot of friends who are suffering at this time of year. You name the boogeyman. Some of my friends struggle with health. Others with family issues. One friend just lost her … Continue reading
Posted in December 2017
Tagged Christmas, despair, friends, gifts, holidays, inspiration, life, spirituality, suffering
41 Comments
Hope in darkness
The clock ticks 6 a.m. Outside our Little House in the Big Woods the wind howls fiercely. Father November has thrown a deep cloak of blackness across the breasts of trees and the wood stove sputters in the basement. Barry … Continue reading
Posted in November 2013
Tagged blessings, death, health insurance, hope, joy, life, Obamacare, spirituality, suffering, thoughts
23 Comments
Do you feel the pain?
…and then the unthinkable happens. Cancer knocks on your door. While you slept an invasion of cells stole away your peace and now chemotherapy rules your days and nights, even though you swore, didn’t you swear?, that you would never … Continue reading
Posted in April 2013
Tagged Boston marathon, death, humanity, inspiration, life, love, pain, Pema Chödrön, redemption, spirituality, suffering
28 Comments
Be kind
Be kind, dear one, be kind. If you can find it in your heart, be kind to one another, for everyone you meet–not just the downtrodden, not just the homeless, not just the friend dying from cancer–everyone you meet–faces some … Continue reading
Posted in April 2013
Tagged deer, inspiration, kindness, life, nature, sorrow, suffering, thoughts, winter
30 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
Sometimes life is not all that it’s quacked up to be.
Gosh. I am going to repeat the headline, just in case you missed it. Sometimes life is not all that it’s quacked up to be. You’ve experienced this in your own life at times? The feeling that you want life … Continue reading
Preciousness of life
Sometimes the world seems like a dismal place, a sorrowful place, a filled-with-suffering place. Tornados roar and hundreds die. Wars gun down thousands. Hurricanes strike. Earthquakes rumble and swallow. We humans bemoan health care or politics or dozens of other … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged alive, appreciation, challenges, earth, gifts, gratitude, happiness, imperfect, life, Memorial Day, moment, musings, nature, perfect, presence, suffering, thoughts
38 Comments