Does Losing Sleep Also Make You Crazy?
I know the thing that makes me the worst version of myself. Lack of sleep. Simple. It’s so hard to believe the truth, to stay positive and peaceful, and to rise above our circumstances when we are just plain tired. Am I right? A wise woman once said to me, “Heather, sometimes the most spiritual […]
Humbled by Mountains
When you drive into Colorado, you’ll soon discern the faint outline of the Rocky Mountains. It’s another source of the sublime: mountains so huge that you think you’re looking into the clouds instead of the white peaks of a mountain range. First you feel small in the expanse of the Kansas praire. Then you feel diminished by […]
Promise Not to Laugh
I climbed into a giant hamster wheel with my children today. Then I put my hands into a tank of fish to let them eat the dead skin off of my fingers. I learn this constitutes a spa treatment in some salons. It tickled and was very strange indeed. Then I went back to […]
Sally Smith Says, “You Can’t Fall Apart Over Things Like This.”
Last night I watch a woman, Sally Smith, standing in the rubble of her mother’s home in Joplin. She turns to Anderson Cooper and says, “You can’t fall apart over things like this.” I burst into tears. Can you imagine your whole life crumbling around you and saying that? What does she know that I […]
Espionage!
Our morning routine includes espionage. We have to scour the backyard for secret information. Even in our bare feet, we tiptoe across the morning dew to snoop on the strawberries. Then, we plunge inside the winterberry bush to spy on the Northern Cardinal who built a nest there this past week. It doesn’t stop […]
The Next Step
My one-eyed cat, Jack, has taken another important step. Remember how wounded and sick Jack was? How unattractive and miserable? We brought him home and gave him all the love we could. He’d lost his ability to purr. He couldn’t even meow. His whole kitty identity seemed withered and dying. Then one day, he […]