Month: May 2009

  • Simplicity. Beauty in details. The Way of the Small by Michael Gellert (May 2009)

    Good morning!  It’s taking me quite a few trips to the refrigerator & coffeemaker this morning to get this letter finished!!!!  If you aren’t in Nebraska this week you’re missing out!  The corn is just popping up – a new blanket of light green covering the barrenness of the last few months…created just for us!  The small…the details…the…

  • Children Suffering. “Perfectly Imperfect” by Lee Woodruff and “Always Looking Up” by Michael J. Fox. (May 2009)

    Susan’s Thursday morning note May 21, 2009 Accepting Pain & Hardship . Children Suffering.    Always Looking Up: the Adventures of an Incurable Optimist by Michael J. Fox             Perfectly Imperfect: A Life in Progress by Lee Woodruff             Diaries & Letters of Anne Lindbergh Good morning! Oh, the wind isn’t blowing this morning…I can’t believe…

  • Pain. Grief. Hardship. “Always Looking Up” by Michael J. Fox and “Perfectly Imperfect” by Lee Woodruff (May 2009)

    Good morning! Oh, the wind isn’t blowing this morning…I can’t believe it!…I thought I should be reading therapy books for us to handle the ceaseless wind…I have honestly formed thoughts in my head that I am not proud of just because of the incessant winds….all day…all night….even the coffee doesn’t taste as good…if you’re reading…

  • Raising Children “Bringing Up Geeks: How to Protect Your Kid’s Childhood…” by MaryBeth Hicks (May 2009)

    Susan’s Thursday note May 14, 2009  Bringing Up Geeks: How to Protect Your Kid’s Childhood in a Grow-Up-Too-Fast World  by MaryBeth Hicks (Geeks: Genuine, Enthusiastic, Empowered Kids) Good morning!!!!  After cursing the winds of Nebraska last night this morning is completely still and breathtaking.  The only disconcerting part of my morning is the mole (I’m…

  • Organization “A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder by Abramson & Freedman” (May 2009)

    Good morning!  The cat is sitting on my mouse pad & rolling on the keyboard on my right, the coffee is perfect on my left…here I go!  You’ll be glad to know spring has officially arrived because the first gift of a little mouse was presented at our sliding door yesterday morning from the cats…