by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Dec 23, 2007 | cardinals, marriage, symbols
From a journal entry 12/27/2001:It’s quite nippy today. I’ve put out birdseed and there’s a lot of squawking and chirpping and coming and going. I had fretted over the absence of birds, especially cardinals recently, thinking the cats might have...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Dec 21, 2007 | blessing in ordinary miracles
Have you noticed how so many snacks now come in mini scaled portions? There are 100 calorie packs of many popular national brands of cookies. There are “2 bite” brownies in the bakery section. Ghiardelli, Hershey, and other chocolatiers are selling bags...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Dec 15, 2007 | brokenness, Christmas, redemption, symbols
A few days ago I stopped at a little antique shop along Hwy 231 in Cottondale, Florida, that I enjoy browsing from time to time. It is owned by Deborah Bush, a Cherokee Indian woman about my age. We enjoy chatting and laughing about memories of things from our youth...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Dec 14, 2007 | Uncategorized
From the song Kodachrome by Paul Simon, 1988KodachromeThey give us those nice bright colorsThey give us the greens of summersMakes you think all the world’s a sunny day,Oh yeah, I got a Nikon cameraI love to take a photographSo mama don’t take my...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Dec 11, 2007 | Imagination
Recently, due to some unexpected circumstances, I have had the privilege of spending a significant amount of time with my two youngest grandchildren. The older of the two, has just turned five. She had been telling me for a week about her plans to spend a Tuesday...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Dec 6, 2007 | birds, Matthew 6:26, significance
Recently I was reading a review of a book, A Thousand Sparrows, about the experience of Jeff Leeland who, while working in a school in Seattle, saw children in the school where he taught come together to assist his son and family through a life threatening illness....
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Nov 29, 2007 | counseling, memories, symbols
Some counseling theories are based on exploring “early recollections” of clients in an attempt to relate them to current attitudes, values, fears, feelings, or behaviors. When asked about earliest memories in a recent class on counseling theories, I...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Nov 26, 2007 | serenity
O God and Heavenly Father,Grant to us the serenity of mind to accept that which cannot be changed; the courage to change that which can be changed, and the wisdom to know the one from the other, through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen. Reinhold NiebuhrAlthough the prayer...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Nov 25, 2007 | counseling
Watching someone close to me struggling with a manic episode has brought back vivid memories of the days early in my own psychosis in 1997. After a week of incredibly high emotionality in which I seemed to be having all kinds of insights and understandings, I suddenly...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Nov 24, 2007 | acceptance, counseling, serenity
The more I study various psychology theories and therapies, the more I am inclined toward William Glasser’s Reality Therapy/Choice Theory and Albert Ellis’ Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), also known simply as Cognitive Behavior Theory (CBT). I...
