300 words a day

Yesterday I offered you 7 options of things to do to be helpful in August. They were simple things, designed to be doable in a short time. I heard from several of you about ways that you followed up. For example, a bunch of you watched Brian’s video about waiting and some of you even commented. (On […]

If you look at the calendar, you see that it’s September tomorrow. I wanted to offer you things to do before you say, “where did the summer go?” 1. Write down three things in the last month that made you smile. I mean literally take a writing tool and on paper, write three words or […]

God. For the record, we would love to see a bush that burns without being consumed. Although we would have an explanation for it. We would love to hear you talk to us, to tell us what you want from us, what we are supposed to do. We would love to hear that you know us. But, […]

As I was out walking the other morning, I was thinking about you. I mean the generic internet you, I suppose, the whole world of people who might read my words (and certainly won’t). But I mostly mean the you who choose to subscribe to what I write and the you who probably don’t read these […]

That’s what the woman said to her sister, talking about the time they’d had since the diagnosis until now. It was a time of clarifying what mattered to them, about putting arrangements into place, about tying up loose ends. I kind of laughed when she said it. Not loud enough for her to hear. I […]