Posts Tagged ‘joy’

Nerves, Lyrics and Powerful Wahoos

So, Thursday night was the first Tribe call. It’s taken me this long to really wrap my head around it and put it into words. And apparently, I’m still not there because all I can say was it was Uh!Maze!Ing! Oh, I was nervous. Speaking to a group (even as lovely a group as you [...]

My Happy Place

In Vegas my happy spot was a lawn chair in my yard. Our garden made it considerably cooler and I loved being around even that smallish patch of green. I loved to sit and envision what we planned to make of it. I saw a deeply mulched oasis of perennials and annuals to feed us [...]

Overachievers, Vilifying Interests and Owning It

Zeb took a serious interest in the Jr Ranger Program offered through our National Parks while we were in Indiana. Our first park and his first badge has come from Lincoln National Park in Southern Indiana. According to his age, he was required to finish five pages of the program and a list of tasks [...]

Vegged Out With The Janssens

Friday was a grand, grand day. That’s because it marked the 11th hour completion of Benny’s straight veggie oil conversion! Our greened-out RV now runs on waste vegetable oil, available for free from neighborhood restaurants and we couldn’t be more ecstatic. Justin has been working with Matt Janssen on the conversion, learning tons and having [...]

Poem: To Be

to love the mess and kiss the rock that tripped me and bless the burnt edges of the toast for their discomfort to smile at the laughter at the sun at the wind that blows away my patience to be open to opposition contrast differences and allow it to open my mind and think and [...]