Category: Spiritual

  • And The Darkness Comprehended It Not

    Over Spring Break last month, I took the kids to Mammoth Cave. For those that don’t know, it’s the longest known natural cave system in the world—over 420 miles of intertwining network. We spent 4 hours hiking 250 feet below the Earth, covering just 4 miles of the system and taking on some 1,600+ stairs.…

  • Christmas in…December?? (And Other Reflections on THREE Years of Caregiving (!!))

    Y’all. It finally happened. Christmas in JulyDecember! Today was the day that we finally had our Sleep Safe Bed delivered! (after months of back and forth with insurances, social workers, providers, medical supply applications, medical supply personnel, decisions—endless phone calls (ie, waiting on hold, listening through queue after queue of not-actually-helpful robot answering services)—endless rigmarole…

  • Waiting…

    It is one of those wet and dreary, grey autumn days. The kind of day that makes you want to curl up under a woolly knit blanket, sip on some Earl Grey tea, listen to Bon Iver, and attend to the rain and wind outside the window. Maybe it’s the changing of the season that…

  • Stillness

    So, when was the last time you sat and flipped through an entire Where’s Waldo? book—finding Waldo, Wenda, Woof, Wizard Whitebeard, and Odlaw on each page before continuing on through the book? (Ok, Fine, we didn’t always find Odlaw…that sneaky little mustachioed devil…). I am guessing for most of you, it has been at least…