Depression comes with a host of symptoms – lack of energy, sleeplessness, changes in diet, sense of guilt or hopelessness, etc. Many feel an overwhelming sense of despair while depressed. There is a sense of drowning in a sea of emotion. Some don’t feel anything at all. This is called emotional numbness. Numbness can encompass…
I’m Nobody! Who are you? Are you – Nobody – too? Then there’s a pair of us? Don’t tell! They’d advertise – you know! How dreary – to be – Somebody! How public – like a Frog – To tell one’s name – the livelong June – To an admiring Bog! This is one of…
We’ve come to realize that our home does not run like most households. Things that are “normal” for us are not “normal” for others. Ry’s schedule is a prime example. Not many people need to take their 19-year-old to the bathroom for “potty time.” We’ve also come to realize that there are phrases one will here quite frequently in our home that aren’t heard in others. Here are some of them.
I have only been arrested once in my entire life. Trust me – it probably should have happened a lot more, but I had an innocent face and was never caught. When O’Doul’s first came out, it was strongly advertised as a non-alcoholic beer. At the time of my arrest, I was not drinking. I…
“Attention is the beginning of devotion.” — Mary Oliver I keep coming back to that sentence. Devotion sounds like such a big word. We associate it with faith, prayer, commitment, love, worship, service. Things we deliberately give ourselves to. But Mary Oliver begins somewhere much smaller. Attention. Before devotion, notice. Before meaning, notice. Before gratitude,…
Have you ever been through a time in your life where you have lost your purpose? I think we all have a period in life when this happens. If you haven’t gone through yours yet, just wait. It’s coming. For the past couple of months, I have been struggling with finding my purpose again. It…
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