Category Archives: 7 Ways

I recently visited a state park where one of the trails, the first I’ve ever come across in fact, was devoted to poems to be experienced along its circuitous path. There were eight places along the way that were marked, save for one, and a brochure I picked up at the park campground with theContinue reading “#13 – Love the Earth”

Oh Ronald. When I think back to one of just a few childhood memories I have at this point, a fuzzy image of being in a McDonald’s for my birthday celebration comes to mind. Granted, Ronald and his crew of cheerful pals (who remembers Grimace and the Hamburglar?) were nowhere to be found but theyContinue reading “# 13 – Love What’s Fun”

I did not grow up in a particular politically or religiously active home. In fact, much of my youth was spent in physical and/or emotional pain from an inherited intestinal anomaly and more trauma than any child should have to endure, anywhere in the world. Whether this or the way in which my home operatedContinue reading “#13 – Love Your Work”

A little over a month ago I joined my 15 year old and his father in the Emergency Room of our children’s hospital following the requirement by the local eating disorder clinic we’d previously had assessments at (for the anorexia that had been working on his body and mind for some time) that we wereContinue reading “#13 – Love Everything”

As another year starts to pass and this book of offerings for each day of the year draws slowly ever out on to this site, I am surrounded with reminders everywhere I look to be patient – with myself, with others, with time. I appreciate the idea and often am fairly content to be patient,Continue reading “#13 – Love Your Self”

I had the honor of hosting 14 women today at a peaceful urban oasis in my city in celebration of the first day of Autumn. Some of the women in attendance were women I was meeting for the first time and some I’ve known for close to 20 years. I continue to be pleasantly surprisedContinue reading “#13 – Love Your Community”

In my national park travels I journeyed most recently to a somewhat smaller one (about 40 square miles) this time out, the Congaree in South Carolina. I arrived pretty early and one of the first things to catch my eye as I was poking around the visit center was the spider that the park mayContinue reading “#12 – Love What’s Fun”

I have been keenly aware as of late how precious this life is. A friend of my teenage child took their own life recently and another friend attempted to do the same just a few days following that. My family has seen its share of self-harming behaviors so I am no stranger to the perilsContinue reading “#12 – Love Everything”