Dec. 26, 2022 Dearest ones, Hi, sweethearts. I know this letter will come as a great surprise to you, since we’ve only talked by Facetime and phone perhaps 25 times or so in your young lives. (How did you get to be teenagers while I wasn’t paying attention?) Living so many miles away from my …
As children we have an incredible capacity for joy. But as we grow up and experience hardships, disappointments, and setbacks, we begin to lose touch with the joy we once experienced so easily. Joy becomes ever more elusive. Certainly, we are still able to experience moments of joy, but it gets harder and harder to …
Journal Entry: Tuesday, Sep 20, 2022, 11:27 a.m. This morning Scott and I traveled to Town Beach to watch the sun rise in the east, over the water. When we arrived, the sky was painted a dusky gray. In the distance a heavy band of darker gray clouds — the color of burnished steel — …
Journal Entry: Friday, Oct 14, 2022, 6:00 a.m. I’m at peace this morning. I love this feeling. Except it’s not a feeling, really. It’s a state. A state of being. It’s difficult to put together the right words to describe being “at peace.” But the image I have is an unpredictable ocean whose surface is undisturbed. …