Author: Linda@heartponderings.com
This is a very long saga. Friends suggested I write it all out because it could be helpful to others. And so, I’m going to post in sections. Monday afternoon, October 3 — The Journey Begins My journey to…
What Was I Thinking? In my last post, I wrote: His (Bryan Stevenson’s) next statements were an awakening as I saw the parallels for women’s concerns: “We don’t realize that we are in the very early days of a post-apartheid/post-genocide era in…
On Tuesday, August 23, I received this email from the League of Women’s Voters: August 26, otherwise known as Women’s Equality Day, marks the anniversary of the certification of the 19th amendment, which granted some women the right to vote. Yet in…
A couple of weeks ago I joined some members of the local chapter of the League of Women Voters for a presentation sponsored by the Diversity Office of Sinclair Community College. We listened to a conversation between Jon Stewart and…
“There are only four kinds of people in the world: those who have been caregivers, those who are currently caregivers, those who will be caregivers, and those who will need caregivers. … Caregiving is hard, even on the good days…
Recently I have been culling my bookshelves … reading some and passing them on … keeping the ones that become treasured friends. The words on the jacket of one originally published in 1992 and thoroughly rewritten in 1998 caught my…
Love is the willingness to extend yourself for the purpose of nurturing your own and another person’s spiritual growth. M. Scott Peck This is my favorite definition of love. When I trained as an Imago Relationship Therapist, we learned to…
Responsibility … a word we rarely hear these days. Instead, we hear “freedom” and “rights” from those who would strip others of theirs. This morning (July 11), I turned on the TV to check the weather. After wading through myriad…
Confusion On my return from a few days away … a delightful and much needed break … I received a phone call from Liz, the intake person at Nicole’s assisted living facility. June 30 is move-in day. Her room is…
Today is the one-year anniversary of my dearest friend, Barbara’s, passing. Her love knows no end.
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