“And so much of our experience is intangible. So much of what we perceive cannot be expressed. It’s unspeakable. And yet, you know, when we communicate with one another and we feel that we have connected and we think we’re understood I think we have a feeling almost spiritual communion. And that feeling may be transient, but I think it’s Read more…
23 years ago today, my brothers were born. It was not until recently (within the past few years) that I realized the significance of this day. My relationship with each of my brothers has evolved from that of squabbling siblings to becoming each other’s confidantes, friends, and family. I do not know what I would do without them in my life Read more…
I can remember this day, eleven years ago, well. As a freshman in high school, that morning was filled with, “what should I wear, did he just look at me as I walked by, why in the world does this class have to be so far away from my locker.” Mundane, albeit perfectly normal, 14 year-old thoughts. As I made Read more…
Have you ever let the right moment slip by? Maybe it was fear, exhaustion, laziness, being too busy, or not recognizing it, but before you knew it, it was gone. Sometimes the moment comes again, but most likely it won’t. Marilyn, over at Life’s a Bumpy Road, recently wrote a post on the importance of living now. She writes: Are Read more…
Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul. ~The Koran A researcher in France recently published a paper on flowers and their ability to convey romance. He had a young man in a mall asking women for their phone number. The young man did this either in a flower shop, a cake shop, or a women’s shoe Read more…
