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Spread Joy
Spread joy. It doesn’t take much, really it doesn’t. There are no guidelines, no right or wrong ways to do it, no right time . . . . Occasionally, a little bit of planning is involved, but mostly it’s...
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Friday’s Fresh Five! (1/20/12)
It was so cold outside that the birds looked all puffed up in their little down jackets. For me, dressing up like Nanook of the North and going out in the freezing cold at midnight is not something I...
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Friday’s Fresh Five! (2/10/12)
The world’s other 6,993,541,793 human inhabitants are more like you than you think. People’s emotions, actions and reactions are not so different from one part of the world to another. Cultural and...
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Friday’s Fresh Five! (3/30/12)
First impressions of this flower might be: prickly, exotic, and tropical. In actuality, this safflower is soft, familiar, and grown in areas with long dry seasons. The lesson here is that first...
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Friday’s Fresh Five! (4/13/12)
Cradled in the arms of trees, the moon rested. Stars and planets hovered subserviently nearby, knowing that the bright light emanating from the full moon dimmed their own magnificence. But, if the...
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Friday’s Fresh Five! (4/20/12)
This tree. This beautiful weeping cedar, a graceful perch for so many birds, is dying. It’s just a tree, I tell myself. But nonetheless, for over sixteen years, without any special wants or needs,...
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Friday’s Fresh Five! (10/5/12)
October brings magnificent fall colors, birthday cheer for Libras and Scorpios, sausage and beer, pink ribbons, scary-looking pumpkins and sweet-tasting treats. L.M. Montgomery, author of Anne of Green...
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Friday’s Fresh Five! (10/19/12)
Oooo . . . how dark it was . . . how dread it was . . . walking the road to the end of the town . . . for the halfway tree . . . the Ghost-Eye tree . . . was feared by all . . . the great and the...
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Friday’s Fresh Five! (11/2/12)
Photos by Linnell Chang “Whatcha lookin’ at, lady?” the bird seemed to say crossly as it stared back at me. A rather rotund, but scraggly-looking bird sat on the ground, hardly moving, not even as I...
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Inspirational Thoughts for the New Year
#1 – A New Year A new year is unfolding – like a blossom with petals curled tightly concealing the beauty within. Unknown #2 – The End and the Beginning For last year’s words belong to last year’s...
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Friday’s Fresh Five! (1/10/14)
With his Santa’s hat askew, Buster, a black Lab, looks warily over at Ruca, his playful Corgi cousin from New York. “Is she still there?” one could only imagine him thinking as he tries to avoid eye...
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Friday’s Fresh Five! (6/27/14)
Living to evolve and evolving to live, a butterfly’s short life is one of purposeful change. From egg to caterpillar to pupa to adult, the butterfly develops through a process of metamorphosis. The...
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Tuesday’s Thoughts (4/21/15)
The words return, recover, and regroup define Mondays. Return to routines and schedules. Recover some semblance of order. Regroup by checking calendars, prioritizing, and taking inventory. I’m not a...
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Friday’s Fresh Five! (5/1/15)
Movement caught my eye as I stood at the kitchen sink and stared out the window. Something landed on a nearby bush, sat for a while, and then flew away. I wondered if a hummingbird had built a nest...
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Friday’s Fresh Five! (6/12/15)
Rotti doesn’t dwell on his disability. In fact, he’s a pretty darn happy guy. Despite the fact that he has a disease that caused his hind legs to become lame, his infectious joyful demeanor remains...
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Friday’s Fresh Five! (7/24/15)
“Stop right there! Don’t take another step!” I called out to my dad. He stopped suddenly, looked around for signs of potential danger, and then looked at me as if I’d lost my mind. “Why?” he replied...
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