Holidays Are Heartbeats Among the greatest challenges to resiliency are holidays. Like an uninvited visitor, holidays arrive at your doorstep, bang incessantly at your door to come in, and then expect you to entertain them with food and frivolity. If you’re like me, the perpetuality of holidays makes you feel like you’d rather stay in […]
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The Creative Art of Letter Writing When I was a child, letter writing was a primary way of communicating between people near and far. I remember in elementary school, probably Fourth Grade or so, my homeroom teacher, who was also my English teacher, assigned each of us a pen-pal. Our pen-pals were from a class that
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Happy People Helping People Strengthens Resiliency When you think of ways to strengthen your own resiliency, chances are your first instinct is to think about ways you can improve your own behavior and outlook. Although thinking about and implementing new approaches relating to yourself is a good idea, did you ever think to not focus
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The Winds of Change Sometimes as your life changes, you open up new spaces to let in new people, new experiences, new inner strength—all that may not have happened if everything stayed the same. Observing nature and the natural cycles of the seasons for instance, change is a constant. Flowers develop, bloom and die. Leaves
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Add Flowers On Ice Flowers, and the art of arranging and displaying them at home is a joyful activity that beautifies any living space. Many years ago, my husband Dan started a tradition of bringing me weekly flowers, especially roses. There were red ones, blush pink ones, lavender and yellow ones, and variegated ones too,
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Before Prayer Before last leaves fall from treesBefore frost rides on waves of seas Before sun offers only faded lightBefore cloud hides moon at night Before Christmas bells have rungBefore dreidel spinning song is sung Before Kinara candles blazeBefore clock consumes calendar’s days Before year ends, stand in thineBefore almighty Lord divine. Linda Joy Walder Ride the wave of creativity
