touching lives

Stand Alone

Prompt: 5 minutes "Stand Alone" Stand Alone Stand alone. On your own two feet. See what you can do without any others to stop you, to help you, to harm you, to interfere, to suggest other ways. What does your heart say? What is your heart saying to you?  Stand alone. You already do stand

Stand Alone2025-08-12T09:28:37-04:00

Nana’s 79th Birthday

October 26, 2014 I had an insight this morning: Mom “reaching out” from her 79-year-old vantage point, longing to share, impart, connect with the subsequent generations of her family. We roll our eyes, take in some things, but hurriedly, slightly irritated at the incessantness of it all. Some stories some of us have heard a

Nana’s 79th Birthday2025-08-12T12:17:52-04:00

Anne Lamotte on Robin:

Anne Lamott's words always speak to me, and so I will share her words from today: Anne Lamott This will not be well written or contain any answers or be very charming. I won't be able to proof read it It is about times like today when the abyss is visible and we cannot buy

Anne Lamotte on Robin:2014-08-12T14:44:40-04:00

Blessed by the Life and Legacy of Dr. Maya Angelou

I just finished watching the two-hour Memorial Service for the esteemed Dr. Maya Angelou held at Wake Forest University, thanks to our Time Warner Cable local TV station (Channel 14). I was recording it, planning to go up to the local Wake Forest (the town, not the university) Farmer's Market, but I could not tear

Blessed by the Life and Legacy of Dr. Maya Angelou2025-08-12T12:24:23-04:00