Category: Living

Farming, Living

Awe: The Key to Happiness

“There’s another element, a base that underpins the actions, which is proving more and more to be the secret to happiness. And it’s not something you do so much as it is how you see the world.”

Living, Massage Therapy

Gratitude Therapy

“Gratitude doesn’t change our problems,  it changes our perspective on our problems. God didn’t just want gratitude FROM me, He wanted gratitude FOR me, because He knew that living in gratitude is how I could get through difficult times,  painful experiences,  and transform sorrow into personal growth.”  

America, Living, Writing

Reproductive Equality

To color his barrier to success and wealth With the threat of death.
To throw down his worst and call it my best. To claim equal if I Step down where he stands. Beneath me where he lives, Outside of Eden, That lone, cold man.

Farming, Living, Writing

Cathedrals

“I turn at the latch to see her,
Standing old, broken and creaking in places,
The weight of faith alone
To keep her still standing…”

Living, Writing

Simplicity After Complexity

“…She doesn’t know yet,
Not in the extremity of her discomfort,
Where all the sick, all the mess, all the need
Goes when it leaves her body, her mouth,
Her heart.

She doesn’t see how it sticks to you…”

Living, Writing

Marilla, My Joy

And when you discover,
As we all have done,
That life is balanced between the love and fear,
The hope and the despair, 
The questions and the faith,
We will be there to hold you, lift you,
Carry your heart, and tend your soul 
With our tears, laughter, and love. 

Living, Writing

Recycled Hearts

“This is what love looks like when you make room in your heart for the one you love to struggle, suffer, grow and change, and still have a place there. Middle age is the birthplace of lifelong lovers.”