Expansion and Reduction

I hope your 4th of July was delicious in every way. We had our dear friends Eric and Kara and two of their girls in town for the weekend and a houseful of adults and kids on the 4th. Steve grilled carne asada and pollo asado and everyone brought a special something...

summer books

Hey friends, Sending you some summer book love in case you need ideas or inspiration. Here’s what I’ve just finished or am currently reading. Let me know what book has your attention these days! Non Fiction/Memoir A Million Little Ways: Uncover the Art You...

i believe in you

  If you’ve been reading my blog for any amount of time, you know that I often sign off by telling you “I believe in you.” I have no idea how that comes through the screen and meets you, but I say it — over and over again — because I...

When Something’s Off

  Right now something in my life is feeling a bit off. It’s not the end of the world or irrecoverable. It’s not mega disaster or anything. But it feels off. You know what I mean? Off-ness is sure offputting, isn’t it. Even if most everything in our life is...

spacious place

  This weekend and every day, here’s to living from the spacious place . . . But me he caught — reached all the way  from sky to sea; he pulled me out Of that ocean of hate, that enemy chaos, the void in which I was drowning. They hit me when I was...

Seven Signs of Life

  I have a friend who once said that you could tell the state of her soul by looking at the state of her eyebrows. I think there’s some real truth to that.   The outward condition of our lives really does have something to indicate about our inward...