I visit twice a week with a frail, elderly, declining widow who still lives in her own place alone. From what I observe, her days are all becoming a bland repeat of one another. Same routine, same entertainment, same preferred food, same conversations, same tiny...
Did you know that 2020 is the Year of the Turtle? May 23 has been being celebrated as Turtle Day since 2000 as a way of bringing awareness to conservation of all kinds of turtles. In Florida we are especially blessed to have a diverse population of various species!...
What’s in a name? To call one by his or her name is a gift. It reveals a condition of familiarity, of knowing, of caring, of being in relationship with another. Our name is important to us. To have our name called by another means that we have value to others,...
Praying tonight for a friend and for her friend with whom she has been praying and journeying through a difficult time this past week. Everyone needs the kind of friend who can and will drop everything to be there when her friend needs her, and whose family and...
“Compassionate detachment is the ability to be present with a person while remaining separate from the outcomes of their predicament.” Last night at Depression Impact Group (D.I.G.) we talked about dealing with emotions when a friendship ends….based...
Bill and I have been in a long season of transition over the last three years. Yesterday as I prepared a home cooked meal and last evening as we enjoyed a leisurely dinner and conversation with friends, I realized that life is more stable and less stressed than it...
