Awake...alert to possibilities
Enshrouded in hope
Prodded by pinpricks of daring
A voice variously whispering, singing, shouting
Yes, you can!
Aware that only if I let go of
security...certainty...routine
Will I ever FLY
Life is truly a mixed bag. Today's weather couldn't be more perfect if I had put in a special order: brilliant sunshine, moderate temperatures, a lovely breeze, all topped off by Carolina blue skies. Absolutely heavenly! Sublime! It was a day of running errands, and I have been enjoying every minute of it, even reminding myself to be gentle with the occasional tooth-gritting driver...(gentle to myself, that is, and it's my teeth that are gritting) by just letting it all go and accepting what I cannot change. It's called Serenity. Right now, I am readying the little toaster oven to heat up one of the dishes I cooked last week, preparing for a lovely meal on the screened porch where the wind chimes will serenade me while I eat. But in the midst of all this wonder and beauty and pleasure, I have been carrying in my awareness, in my heart, the faces of three high school classmates who are dealing with major health issues right now. I had known a little abo
Nearly a month since I last wrote here...a month marked with so many internal debates...with much soul-searching regarding the ways in which my state...this place which I have called home for the last nearly-30 years continues to respond to what was good news on October 11 for so many. I speak, of course, of the judgment handed down in the U.S District Court by Justice Max Coburn that Amendment One, passed last spring, banning same- sex marriages, was unconstitutional. The soul-searching has come, not because I disagree. Quite the contrary. I was among those overjoyed by this step... quite a giant step...toward justice and equality for all people in North Carolina. The soul-searching has come as I have wrestled with how to respond in a loving, caring, Christian way to those who clearly do not agree... to those who find the possibility of same-sex couples marrying a threat of sorts, be it to their biblical understanding or their moral principles or- I'm not s
Yes, we're here, after 24 hours of travel time and nearly 40 hours without real sleep. Last night the bed at the Wildebeest was so welcoming and I slept until 9a.m. for the first time in years. No apparent jet lag...and a slow,pleasant day today, doing a few errands, catching up on email, reading, and talking with people here. For those of you in Carolina who continually complain about our roads being under continual construction (and I am one of you), after riding down a main road near here and watching our driver doing potholes and serving into the non-existent shoulder the road countless times, I pledged never to complain about our roads again. The people here would think they were in heaven driving I-85...while we Carolinians mutter under our breaths and curse the NCDOT. All a matter of perspective, I guess, but we Americans have so much for which to be thankful- and too often aren't! Tomorrow we head to Rwanda to visit with friends and meet our newest grandmothers the
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