
“I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden.”― Ruth Stout On my wish list of things to do in England was to experience the beautiful English gardens – not the formal beds at the grand manors, but the dooryard gardens at private […]

As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow. A. C. Benson I wasn’t at all sure about my first tip to England and Ireland. My many fears manifested in the inability to make decisions – such as what size […]

Magic exists. Who can doubt it, when there are rainbows and wildflowers, the music of the wind and the silence of the stars? Anyone who has loved has been touched by magic. It is such a simple and such an extraordinary part of the lives we live. Nora Roberts, Charmed […]

And he will raise you up on eagle’s wings, bear you on the breath of dawn, make you to shine like the sun, and hold you in the palm of his hand. Michael Joncas My arrival in Mt. Shasta City, at the foot of the magnificient 14,000 foot Mt. Shasta […]

Feathers inspire courage to fly to where one is called…It is the universe in flight. Lavelle Foos Before I left Clear Lake (SE Houston), I came upon an Oregon Coast Picture Book Writers conference web site, where I found the image of a single feather on the sand. I wondered […]

May you experience each day as a sacred gift woven around the heart of wonder.” John O’Donohue A couple of weeks ago I had the special blessing of spending three nights at Bella la Vita Bed and Breakfast in Floyd, Virginia. Innkeepers, Lisal and Matthew, have created a comfortable, interesting inn […]