More on love and picking berries. A few more things I discovered while my wife and I picked raspberries and blueberries at the Bock Berry Farm, close to Iowa City, Iowa. When we began, I somehow sensed that a berry patch could teach me some things about love. Nature will grant us insights into life […]
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Love and Picking Raspberries
Picking raspberries has some things in common with loving. I realized this a while ago when my wife and I spent an idyllic late afternoon in a raspberry patch. The weather was flawless, the fruit abundant and succulent, and our conversation as intermittent and intimate as the breezes which intertwined us. We joyfully, carefully labored […]
Overcoming Inner Naysayers
We all have our inner naysayers. We generally prefer not to talk about these harassing little daemons, though it can help us when we do. By “daemon,” I am not referring to some objective evil or the devil; I mean something akin to a computer virus, or a bacterium that can dis-ease our bodies. Healthy […]
The Promise of Sunrise
“May every sunrise hold more promise, and every sunset hold more peace.” That is an anonymous blessing on a “quotable magnet” my wife and I purchased some years ago at a gift shop near what was then close to “ground zero” of the former World Trade Center in New York City. The blessing touched us […]
Treasure Moments of Pure Love
Treasure moments of pure love, moments when the fullness of your love for another arises and streams out of you, as if to surround the other. You experience a gravity-like bond between you, for which there are no words or means of measurement. And you sense that nothing in heaven or on earth can severe […]
All We Really Have is Today
The only thing we really have is today. And just as importantly, today has us. We are all passing through this fragile ecosystem on a mysterious journey, which no one can take for us. We don’t know for sure when and where we began, whether at the moment of conception, or even before that, heaven […]
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