“Your life belongs to what you have awakened to.” ― John de Ruiter When I was a very little child, my parents had a beautiful ritual of tucking us into bed every night with stories, poems, prayers, and songs.  One of my favorites was from my daddy, when he would sing...

“Heaven is under our feet and over our heads” ~ Henry David Thoreau A few times in our lives we find ourselves at a location that somehow connects the earthly landscape to something much greater – sublime moments that grab our attention and hold us in their grip.  I...

“The ache for home lives in all of us” ~ Maya Angelou Even as young children, growing up viewing the movie the Wizard of Oz, we ingest into our beings the belief that “there’s no place like home.” Yet, we all may have a different idea or sentiment that comes to mind...

"Those with dementia are still people and they still have stories and they still have character and they're all individuals and they're all unique. And they just need to be interacted with on a human level."  ~ Carey Mulligan Today, as I’m writing about this memory,...

Have you ever felt a restlessness, a hollowness – sort of a disturbing emptiness within you?  For me, it didn’t happen all at once; it had been very quietly building within me for a decade and hit a crescendo by my mid-fifties. In the beginning, I suppressed the...