Tag: thoughts

TToT – In The Silence

It is silent. Right now, my house is utterly and completely silent. It is a different kind of quiet than the one that exists here during the day when I’m working here alone. Then I hear the construction noises from the new development across the field. I hear cats doing cat things. I hear cars…

By Lisa March 13, 2015 Off

The Best Thing I Did Lately

I am not much of a joiner.  I never have been, really. I was not the kid who joined a lot of clubs in school. I was part of one or two things that were important to me. In general, I prefer to lend my support to causes and activities from behind the scenes or…

By Lisa March 11, 2015 Off

TToT – The One With All The Excitement

This has been an exciting week. And it’s not over yet, so I’m squeezing this in to make sure I make it to the TToT party before I’m off again. This one’s moving fast, friends, so hang on… My first-ever guest post over at Pat DiCesare’s blog went so well. I am thankful for the…

By Lisa March 7, 2015 Off

FTSF – Time Enough for Important Things

I am a fairly cranky person. You know that character in Steel Magnolias – Ouiser? I’m her.   Given that, you might think this post would come easily. Wrong. I sat for an hour last night trying to figure out what would work for this post and came up totally blank. It’s not because I’m…

By Lisa March 7, 2015 Off

Moving Forward – A 1000Speak Postlude

So here we are, more than a week later. A great many of us have been riding the wave of good feeling that has come from the 1000 Voices Speak for Compassion project and it has been a wild ride indeed. I have read dozens and dozens of posts by so many wonderful people and believe me,…

By Lisa March 2, 2015 Off

Progress and Change

I would love to write something profound and witty for you today. In the interest of efficiency and a need for a good night’s sleep, however, I’m opting for simple. In the next few days, I will be rolling out some changes for the blog and I wanted you to have a bit of a…

By Lisa February 23, 2015 Off

TToT – House-Warming

I am losing my patience with winter. I know, I know. Everyone is tired of it and everyone is cold and nobody wants to hear anyone else complain anymore. I agree. We are house-bound today due to both weather and illness, so I turned to my good friend Thoreau for some help. Because if I…

By Lisa February 21, 2015 Off

Compassion Is Hard – A 1000Speak Confession

Compassion is hard. To feel a sincere sympathetic pity and concern for the sufferings or misfortunes of others? That’s hard. To feel that along with a strong desire to ease the suffering? Harder still. It is far easier to push those feelings way down inside of us and it is much easier to pretend we…

By Lisa February 19, 2015 Off

Four More Birds Down

I have been holding out on you. Maybe it’s more like I got backed up and put this away under “I’ll do that tomorrow” and…didn’t. In the last couple of weeks the Sisterhood of the World Bloggers Award flew around the blogosphere and many of us tagged and were tagged in return. I have to…

By Lisa February 17, 2015 Off