Week one of the Spring 2017 semester is over. Let me just say that re-entry was tough! Though I never really slept late over the holiday break, I was not up any day at 5:30 like I have been every day this week. This adjustment to my morning alarm would have been much more tolerable if I had made a similar adjustment to my bedtime, if it also had moved three hours earlier. I missed that step. The result? Three…
I made healthy food choices today, which my body greatly appreciated, but it is not at all happy with the “sleep diet” that has been imposed now that I am back in school. Though my mind would like to tackle a few things on my need/want to-do list tonight, the body said, “NOOOOO!!!!” For once, I am paying attention. No mind over matter. Goodnight!
I am double dipping today… It is Tuesday In Texas post day on Sifted Together, the blog I co-write with my friend Tracey. We started blogging together two years ago and have just recently reworked and renamed that venture. We just launched Sifted Together on January 9th so you’ve only missed a few posts. To see what’s going on in my world today, as well as what was going on Monday In Michigan from Tracey’s perspective, hop on over to www.siftedtogether.com. …
Only sixteen days into the new year and so many good things have already happened! Yes, I have taken a week long hiatus from writing here; though that was not exactly what I had planned, it is a good thing. Last weekend, while on retreat, I felt compelled to write even though I was not supposed to be. And this week, I have been at home with access to my computer, but other things were more important. I returned home…
I am on retreat this weekend and am supposed to be “fasting” from technology. I’m not doing terribly well with that. I am addicted to posting my daily photos, and I really don’t want to lose my blogging momentum. I don’t have the time to write a full post today, so I am sharing a daily devotion that I wrote that was published today. ****** Today’s devotional is written by Kris Baker, Order of St Francis & St Clare, at #cohdallas, a United…
So many acts are Underappreciated. Little things matter. KEB 1/4/17 Today’s photo prompt was overlook. I could probably write pages here about all of the things that I have overlooked lately, but I have no time for that because I definitely have overlooked the fact until now that we will be out of town this weekend staffing a retreat and I had not packed a thing until 11 pm tonight. So, no time to write. That said, I will be…
Boxes, more boxes Of papers and photographs. Flawed memories. KEB 1/3/17 For a year and a half all of the boxes of “stuff” that I brought home from my dad’s house have been sitting in our guest room. Well sitting may be too kind a word. Crammed is more appropriate. It is fair to say that anyone who ventured into that room would have needed a golden clew, like that of Ariadne, to make their way out of the labyrinth…
For body, mind, spirit Growth, health, and good condition. In one word, NOURISH. KEB 1/2/16 For a second year, I am participating in Ali Edwards One Little Word project. This project invites you to choose one word that you will work with throughout the year. The word should be one that helps you grow personally and perhaps helps you to reach a goal or goals. I attempted this project last year. My word was Order. Although I did make some progress…
I don’t make New Year’s resolutions. Instead, I prefer to think that I am setting new goals for myself in the coming year. What’s the difference? A resolution is “a firm decision to do or not do something.” A goal is “the object of a person’s ambition or effort, an aim or desired result.” I think my issue with resolution comes in the word firm. That makes the idea of keeping to resolution sound so strict, so harsh, so inflexible….
Another year behind me…the days seem to pass faster and faster! I need them to slow down. I have so much that I need to do, that I want to do. One thing that I have managed to do every single day since January 1, 2013 is to take a photo a day, a photo that in some way represents my day. Other than brushing my teeth, I’m not sure that I can say that I have any other habit…