December 1: World AIDS Day December 3: International Day of Persons with Disabilities[15] December 7: National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day December 10: Human Rights Day and Human Rights Week December 15: Bill of Rights Day December 17: Wright Brothers Day Day Name Recognized by December[edit] December 1 World AIDS Day[19] UN[2][103] December 2 International Day […]
The Last Living Child of My Parents
I wrote much of this post in July 2015: I spent a lot of the day with my brother, Jim, reading prayers he liked (Psalms), ones I like (Buddhist), telling him I love him, talking to him about family, telling him his love for me was always something I cherished, that we would make sure […]
Dodged Another of Depression's Spitballs
Being outside my home or being with non-intimates, not-immediate family, once took outrageous amounts of energy from me. I have learned to spend less energy in social situations, and control the contact I have with others. This is an ever shifting challenge. It is a balancing act. Beyond being a challenge, it also hurts. I […]
Behind the Scenes in Life and Dreams
I have been very busy working on my Women’s Legacy Project launch. While this is essential work to continue upon the writing path I have been following and then clearing and creating over the last couple of years, I have had to neglect some things to focus on others. Life can be cruel. It gives us energy […]
Saturday Summerhaven Escape from the Heat
Our household started the day a bit later than we had intended, but it turned out to be a delightful day despite only getting to half the events we had hoped to attend. The first one started at 9-ish, as in the a.m., at 9,000 feet. A mountain brunch. Actually Summerhaven, the mountain town where we were meeting […]
A Simple Life Truth
The Quote I ran across a variation of this quote this morning on Pinterest attributed to Shakespeare. The quote is not by William Shakespeare. It is by David Viscott from a 1993 publication Finding Your Strength in Difficult Times: A Book of Meditations, as best as I can tell after researching it without having a copy of […]