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Crossing Another Bridge
Today’s image is near the west entrance gate of the Denver Botanic Garden. I have spent the last 3 months crossing this bridge as I enter and depart during my frequent visits to the garden. I have also been blessed to live…
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Closed Doors
The gate in today’s image is on the southeast side of the Denver Botanic Garden. I’d never seen it before on my visits, but this summer I’m exploring specific parts of the garden on shorter but more frequent visits. I saw…
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Something Old is New Again
It’s very interesting how things that we’re struggling with “all of a sudden” resolve. One day, without notice, something that has been taking away so much of our physical and mental effort, finds it proper proportion in our life, or even disappears. It was one of those weeks for me. I was grateful for…
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Stop
Having always been a curious sort from the time I was young, I’d sometimes get into trouble – especially if I asked people about things they’d rather not disclose. The phrase then was: “Stop being so nosy”, or the firmer: “mind your own business.” I was always wondering how things worked and would…
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Photo Friends
I’ve been away for a photography workshop with Frans Lanting and associates in Santa, Cruz California. (www.lanting.com) I first heard of Lanting when he and two other world renowned masters of nature photography came for a two day Denver event in mid April. I was especially drawn in by his emphasis on the importance…
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Endings
With major transitions, come new challenges and responses. This sound so obvious, but ask the survivors of a bombing in Boston if their lives will not be forever changed as they navigate their way through through emotional, physical, and spiritual challenges? How about our neighbors in Texas whose town blew up ? What about…
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One Season Following Another
In the midst of major drought in our mile high city of Denver, it blesses me to know that tulips can “spring” up out of the driest of dry soil. As we begin our two day a week, water restrictions for outdoor watering , we learn to be intentional about identifying what we value…
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When my oldest son was little I gave him a book that was in my toy consultant sample packet. The title: “Little While Friends.” He received it just before we went on a family road trip one summer where we explored three towns named Keystone in three states … among other things. Stopping to…
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Mit der Wahl, Kommt die Qual
German was my native language and after my family immigrated to the U.S. when I was almost six, I’m happy to say that my wise mother continued to encourage me to keep learning and speaking German. One of the delights of being bi-lingual is that there are certain words and phrases that so precisely…
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Nebraska author Willa Cather once said: “Some things you learn in calm, some things in storm…” The last two weeks I’ve had the privilege and pain to learn in both conditions. In the calm of this week, the storm of vertigo and…