Monthly Archive: February 2019

  “Kind words are short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless” Mother Teresa Start the day with kind words to someone you meet.  

Music Keeps Us Moving As an elementary educator and a church musician, the sounds of music fills the church and my classroom on a regular basis, as well as my home (just ask my daughter). In a world of technology, we have graduated from cassette tapes and records and cds, to ipads and ipods. We can listen to music almost anywhere..the car, an airplane. We …

“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.” ~ Charles M. Schulz   Love is the greatest emotion of all.  Whether it’s in the air or in bloom it makes us warm all over!  Falling in love wreaks havoc on you body, your heart races, your stomach is tied in knots, you’re on an emotional roller coaster!  Contrary, standing in love is …

  In the  Danish language, hygge (pronounced “HUE-gah”) cannot be translated into English using a single word. Though there are many ways to describe hygge, most define it simply as the Danish ritual of enjoying life’s simple pleasures. Friends. Family. Graciousness. The definition of Hygge gave us three English words , friends, family and graciousness – combined under the heading of  simple pleasures. While I …

Listen and silent are spelled with the same letters.  The din of every day sound waves in constant commotion can set our nerves on edge like a steel garden hoe hitting a smooth dry rock.   There seems to be a constant background static of babel which harkens that the world has become all too insistent.  Buzzing technology, hullabaloo that passes for conversation, media uproar at decibels far above a comfort level will cause discomfort over …