Wondering Category Archives

REAL THANKFUL

But I wonder if the best kind of gratitude is the kind that can hold both thankfulness and longing…

TRUTH

Lately, because I have bumped up against a few, I’ve been thinking about lies. Or maybe I’m actually thinking about truth. …

LOSING IT

There’s been so much loss this week. From every direction. Massive, unfathomable losses of life and limb. Loved ones. Innocence. …

PICK ONE?

Today I was talking to someone I love about how maybe just maybe we all have a bit more in …

UNFINISHED

The painting that currently hangs in our living room, above the mail and the keys, is an unfinished watercolor that …

MERCY

Wow, what a week. On Monday, I was overwhelmed by the personal stories of the world crashing in on so many fellow Americans—along with the wind and waves and fire and Hurricane Sandy. Americans who, days earlier, had been walking through their everyday ordinary, plain-jane lives, never suspecting the great losses that were just around the corner. Because we never do.