A Mindful Life

Driving home from visiting a friend at a coffee shop, I snapped this photo. (Notice I was at a stoplight.) Palm trees are part of California flora. In the winter it rains in the valley, but at a certain altitude it snows. It makes for a pleasant visual when driving east.

Recently a comment was left inquiring what had happened to all my great ideas to volunteer, start a listening ministry, be a literacy coach, and work in the non-profit arena. And it occurred to me that I have been quiet about these inspiring ideas for several months.
In October, when Husband and I saw a counselor [...]

Today I knit a swatch to get gauge for a simple knit tee. My mother bought the pattern for me at Christmas, and I have yarn in my stash. After I got the gauge, I cast it on. Cheers for me!
It’s not incredibly complicated, but it’s several levels more complex than anything I’ve knit [...]

Look! More photos!

Stella looks as though she’s going to pounce, but she’s actually just settling herself into her usual position (seen in the next photo).

Since our move, Stella’s latest place to chill is under the desk in the office, but only if I’m there too. She usually sleeps at my feet. She’s my little buddy.

You sit back most of your life, and you assume that there are grown-ups somewhere running the show. If you really get out there, if you look behind the curtain, you see it is just a bunch of tired people like yourself, needing help, trying their best and not doing half as well as they [...]

Sophie and Stella watch the litterbox as it performs its cleaning function.
Husband has taken over catbox duties, which he loathes. We were using non-scoopable litter and he hating changing it as frequently as needed; we decided it wasn’t sanitary enough, but he also didn’t want to do daily scooping. So we splurged and bought [...]

The dish cloths I made in the past were too large, and I didn’t like the stitch, so I made new ones this weekend. Knitting with cotton makes my hands ache. I used Sugar ‘n’ Cream yarn.

On this gray, dreary day, Husband and I still have our sweats and jammies on, and it’s nearly 3:30 in the afternoon. Our intention had been to finish unpacking the last of the boxes and to hang art work, but he got involved in a novel, and I dedicated myself to knitting new dish cloths [...]

This bird resides in a lush atrium at the Burnet Park Zoo in Syracuse, New York.