Hono(u)r Your Mother, Empower Another!
This is a special week for me, and for many of you too — Sunday is Mother’s Day, and on Wednesday and Thursday, Mike and I have our birthdays. For me it’s a big one, Seven Oh :-), and I’ve been celebrating it for months now! Another piece is that when I was born, 70...
Dance! There’s No Tomorrow!
Today is May Day, half way between Spring Equinox and Summer Solstice, also called Beltane. What better way to celebrate this ebullient and delicious turning than to Dance! I started to write Dance Like There’s No Tomorrow! but then I thought better, and left out the ‘Like’, because there IS no tomorrow, there’s only today! A...
SNOW!!
It was a lovely way to bring in the new year: on January 1 I flew to Europe to spend time with family… first stopping in Bavaria to visit my former husband and good friend Wolf and his wife Angelka, who had her birthday the day after I arrived. Wolf prepared a yummy risotto with...
Make a Joyful Noise!
Just recently we had our annual Christmas Choir Concert. An inspiring feature this year was singing the Gloria, from Schubert’s Mass in A Flat. Do go listen to at least the first few minutes. The message is rich and timeless: “Glory to God, and on Earth, Peace and Good Will to All.” Whether you honor G(g)od,...
Thanksgiving and Gratitude
This past weekend Canadians celebrated Thanksgiving. It has taken me a while to accept the second weekend in October as the date for this fine event, but I have come to feel that the season of harvest fullness is every bit as appropriate, no, actually much more appropriate, than dreary and soggy, late November! We...
