only love will do it…

not dominance, not submission, not platitudes, not anger, not denial

Happy Mother’s Day…

To all the women that step up, in their way, to nurture and tend to their’s and other’s children…Happy Mother’s Day!!!

Early morning light on a rose in our backyard

sending warm thoughts…

Lost in late life…

prayers and sincerest best wishes for those that care for their older loved ones. The challenges, the heart ache, the fear and frustrations are profound. The reality of aging and decline in our loved ones coupled with no rest for the weary takes an enormous toll. Just trust you are loved and respected from afar and before you.

loss…

“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.” C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

Seeking a connection…

“Breathing seemed harder in the cemetery, and selfish, somehow…” Sheri Webber

dopamine in the garden…

When the world wearies and society fails to satisfy, there is always the garden. – Minnie Aumonier

stability and love…

“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” Frederick Douglass

Blessings…

“The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.” Eric Hoffer

Good Grief no…

Good grief amongst us…

“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing. At other times it feels like being mildly drunk, or concussed. There is a sort of invisible blanket between the world and me. I find it hard to take in what anyone says. Or perhaps, hard to want to take it in. It is so uninteresting. Yet I want the others to be about me. I dread the moments when the house is empty. If only they would talk to one another and not to me.” ― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed