Occasionally, my girl and I, we like to treat ourselves to lunch at the cafe of a nearby bookstore. We pick out an entree to share and we each find something to read and we sit in silence, reading and eating. We are comfortable in that silence. We’re there together, and we understand that about …
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I like to exercise and cook and eat healthy, except for the occasional (read daily) chocolate. I could out walk Forest Gump’s running. One of my favorite books, World Walk by Steven Newman, is the account of a man who walked the world because it was “there”, Even thinking about travel makes me start packing. …
This “new” normal I’m in, this walking around in a new skin that feels like a daughter of the King and learning to believe it, is exhilarating most days. I find my old fears fading. My courage and boldness and joy are growing into strong plants with stems that feel thick as a redwood tree. …
I’m gonna write this out real fast like before I swallow too hard and think too much and chicken out. It’s been in my mind for weeks. That is how it is with me. I feel an idea hatching itself in my mind, my spirit, and then the title comes to me and all the …
I fell asleep easy enough. But, I woke myself up scratching my palm and I thought to myself, “How weird is that? I wake myself up scratching my itchy palm? I wonder if I googled that that somewhere someone claims that means something, sort of like if your ears burn someone is talking about you?” …