If I didn’t have kids, I’d probably be a hermit. In fact, I vaguely recall (through a haze of sleep deprivation induced delirium) that I WAS a bit of a hermit once upon a time ago. Call it laziness, call it anxiety or mild agoraphobia, but going out really isn’t my thing. [...]
Categories: Finding Joy
Sometimes I want things, but I don’t want to want them. Other times, I’m obscurely proud of the things I want and I clip out little pictures of them and keep them in a battered old notebook in my nightstand drawer. I look at them from time to time and smile and congratulate [...]
Categories: Finding Joy
“Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.” – Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man
The first time I read those words I thought, wow, that’s rather depressing, the darkness always being there first. [...]
Categories: Faith, Finding Joy
I found a link today on Jane’s blog, to Momalom. I’d visited Momalom before (and I confess to being instantly smitten by their genuineness), but today, specifically, I’m smitten by the concept of intentional happiness, and I’ve quoted this fabulous concept (see below) because I need it so, so desperately right now. My [...]
Categories: Finding Joy
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