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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: suffering
What does “Oh NO, where did my purse go?” have to do with spirituality?
Yesterday we traveled forty-five miles north to the local Chevy dealer to get snow tires installed on our Equinox. (Our usual local tire guy/mechanic couldn’t fit us in until mid-November and snow’s on its way.) We departed the car, handed … Continue reading
Posted in What the Heart Knows
Tagged Deb Dana, emotions, holy, human creature, love, nervous system, pain, polyvagal theory, purse, relaxing, spirituality, suffering
22 Comments
Coming into wholeness
I have been thinking a lot about wholeness this week. My friend, Deb, shared a post on Facebook recently about how she’s achieved wholeness in several areas of her life: as a parent, as a spouse, as a descendant. She … Continue reading
Posted in August 2018
Tagged clarity, division, garden, inspiration, life, photography, positivity, suffering, thoughts, wholeness, worthiness
31 Comments
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