“New Year’s Day. A fresh start. A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and loved. Answers to be discovered and then lived in this transformative year of delight and self-discovery. Today carve out a quiet interlude for yourself in which to dream, pen in hand. Only dreams…
Day 365 + 26: Advent..ures
“Advent is concerned with that very connection between memory and hope which is so necessary to man. Advent’s intention is to awaken the most profound and basic emotional memory within us, namely, the memory of the God who became a child. This is a healing memory; it brings hope. The purpose of the Church’s year…
Day 365 + 25: Helping with chores
“Time spent with cats is never wasted.”- Sigmund Freud Project 365: #365 + 25 I originally started this blog to find something to be grateful for everyday. Some days have been much easier than others, and some days I just haven’t even been able to add anything at all. Not because I am not grateful, but…
Day 365 + 24: New beginnings
“There is a fable in the forest Whispered by the branches, as they blow. A tale about the truth of leaving Things that no longer help you grow. For on the surface it looks simple, Like you only need lace your boots, But there is nothing quite as painful As untangling your roots. And proof…
Day 365 + 23: The golden sousaphone
“The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music.” – Peter De Vries Project 365: #365 + 23 The music boosters have been raising funds to replace the original sousaphones (almost forty years old)…and a new one arrived this week, which Nic had the privilege of playing on Saturday in…