One of the true joys of the holidays for me is always making and baking gifts for my family, friends, and neighbors. I tend to prefer to gift homemade things over the holidays as opposed to the latest whose-its or what-its for many on my list. To me, there is something truly special about gifting something that I spent time…
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Before the days of global positioning satellites, sailors used a device called a sextant to get their navigational positioning twice each day. At dawn and dusk, they would “shoot the stars” and get a position. Using the North Star or True North as their reference point they could determine the correct course which would lead them towards their intended destination….
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A couple of months ago my daughter-in-law shared a video with me of a new food craze called hot chocolate bombs and it blew my mind. It is basically hot cocoa, but it is the way the hot cocoa is delivered that is so amazing. When you pour hot milk over the beautifully smooth delicate sphere of chocolate, they melt…
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This past summer I was able to travel with my two adult children to 4 national parks. With the limits of travel due to the quarantine, we made a road trip. We went to Yosemite, Grand Tetons, Yellowstone and Glacier. I made a goal of seeing the sunset in each park at least once.As I watched the sun descend behind…
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This month I have been thinking about the virtue of humility. Pondering how it can inform our relationships and even the way we respond to the latest health guidelines. (side note on vices and virtues, my latest blog post talks all about acedia, more commonly know as sloth, and how it may be showing up today. You can read it here)…
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