Pita, Prayers, and Perennials
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My hope is for all to receive sanctuary and encouragement, including hospitality venues and ideas, conversational meditations, and organic gardening tips. Topics will range from the deeply personal to the light and entertaining, but all with the purpose of uplifting you while encouraging you to think deeply.
Hold My Hand
I'm angry. I feel abandoned. I'm sad. How can my dear, dear friend have died so suddenly this week? Weren't we just laughing and talking a few minutes ago? I'm heart-broken. My homeland, Lebanon, is being torn to shreds. The blindness, the prejudice, the hatred is...
Swallowtail Butterfly Habitat
With the heartless slaughtering of innocents, ransacking of homes, destruction of livelihoods, and raping of life-giving lands, I find myself trying to heal the tiny, one quarter of an acre piece of dirt under my care. My garden has already earned the certified...
I Lost Myself
I miss my mind, body, and creative self. I lost them on a journey this past year. "How," you ask? My kind, attentive, life-affirming rheumatolotist retired the previous January. We had slipped into gray-haired senior citizenship together. He was diminutive in stature,...