Celebrating Beauty

Celebrating Beauty

I wasn’t sure what to expect when I received the invitation. It’s a busy season, so I tend to scrutinize the events that go on my calendar more than normal during the month of December. But then again the founder of Verity Vareé is my daughter, and her dream...
The View From Here

The View From Here

Rain, not snow, is falling here this cold and dreary December morning. But this post from last December has cheered and recalibrated my heart . . . . The first flake fell all alone. I saw it as I was standing on the porch waiting for the dog to do his business....
Beneficiary of a Dream

Beneficiary of a Dream

I don’t remember Mom talking much about dreams. What I do remember was how she lived life oblivious to boundaries. She created something from nothing all the time. My dad tells stories of coming home from work to find her painting rocks with me and my little sister....
Dreams Interrupted

Dreams Interrupted

I look up the word interrupt and find definitions like these: made discontinuous, followed not by the expected, stop the continuous progress, break the continuity. The word clearly evokes a detour from what is expected. My God-sized dreams have...
Letters from the Valley

Letters from the Valley

Even though I walk through  the valley of the shadow of death,  I will fear no evil, for you are with me; ~from Psalm 23 We live on a mountain between two valleys. The trees on the east side of the mountain are cleared just enough to give us a view of the...

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