This is a phrase that was made very famous by HBO’s Game of Thrones. It carried with it a foretelling of doom and gloom, despair and disaster. In the farther north hemisphere of the planet, and, I imagine, in the farther south hemisphere as well, it simply indicates a change of seasons from warm to […]
Distractions
I have been giving a lot of thought these days, with Covid-19 afoot, about the various ways in which people maintain their individual sanity as all of the crazy stuff keeps happening all around us. I have noticed a number of folks on social media doing things like Gratitude lists on a daily basis. I […]
Stringing Things Along
Admittedly, this has been in draft form since mid-summer. It just always felt like there were more important things to write about and share. But today…you get to see how my mind works, in retrospect! Today, during my break, I went out into my garden and picked some pole beans. I love pole beans. They […]
A Good Night’s Sleep
Sleep is so incredibly important to one’s health and well-being. There are numerous studies that show how sleep deprivation will adversely affect the quality of one’s life and one’s health. Yet often people will make sleep the one thing that they will deprive themselves of in order to accomplish something that really has no effect […]
Trying to Remember
There are a lot of different spiritual beliefs out there. But when one looks at all of them, there is a definite similarity that is often missed. That similarity has to do with remembering our connection to Spirit/the Divine/God…whatever you choose to call it. Remembering, however, is not always easy. Sometimes the memory comes as […]