How to Find Contentment    Find a beach. A place where the waves  race up on the shore and smoothe it.  If you give them time the waves  can do that for you, smoothe over  the rough places of life, lull you.  Hopefully you’ll find…

Recipe for Sanity Amidst Heartbreak   1 heartful of courageous hope Multiple Hours of patience Some hours of tender care (include your favorite friends) Three sources of solid information (from authority in this case, from others with similar experience; from credible internet sites) Prayer, added…

Recipe for Lost Productivity Grease a 5’5 well educated vessel. Pre-heat political and social climate to “Revolution”. Prepare ingredients and transfer directly to vessel, stirring aggressively as if it’s a pot: 1. Pandemic 2. Dubious leadership 3. Police Brutality 4. Protests 5. Social Media (for…

Ingredients Lifetime of memories 1 gallon of sentimentality 24 moving boxes, various sizes 5 rolls of bubble wrap 2 rolls of packing tape 1 Box of Kleenex Instructions Measure the sentimentality and discard all traces. You will never finish if any trace of this ingredient…

Thy serpent tongue twists all thy truths to lies And devil’s gleam lies content in thyne eye, But that won’t shift my heart: I fail to try, For when thou art near, what I feel, oh my! I know thou cheat: life is a game…

when our maps became obsolete when sudden mountains rose and highways exploded and dreams disintegrated we became people living on a threshold beyond which we cannot imagine except that one day this will be history that some laughing people bearing our genetic traces will never…

Ingredients, you will need: 1x Global Pandemic 2x parents who’ve just got used to having the house to themselves 1x son who can’t stand having to leave the delights of the city for his parents house in the countryside 1x son with pretensions of being…

Hour 2: Ringing the Bell at Church   Sitting in silence as the bell rings. Memories not my own. Four minutes for Floyd. Four minutes for 400 years of slavery in America.   Its echo shakes loose tears for the suffering and oppression— their story…

1. An abundance of patience and hope. 2. Communication with precious friends and family members 3. A walk in the park or a zoom workout 4. Keeping gainfully employed 5. High-fat takeout or cooking It’s hard to find the right mixture to get through this…

Even the best recipes change over time   That apple pie Great Aunt Bernie brings every year? She picks it up from the nearby corner store, puts it in a pie tin, and takes all the credit But no one ever seems to mind, it…