A Pause

I need to pause. I'm somewhat settled in my new home. Stuff is unpacked and located approximately where it will live--revisions are envisioned but OK for ordinary living. Routines are still somewhat elusive though a blessed calm has settled in, even while a large inner-sorting is taking place. Psychic transition? Yes. Maybe. I'll find out.

So, this posting is marking the beginning of a Sabbatical if there is such a thing as a Sabbatical from one's own blog. I want you to know that I'm not just ignoring this blog that has kept me in contact with you for just over six years. Thank you, for you have been part of it. Keep in touch if you are inclined. It will be great to hear from you and I promise to answer. I'll rejoin you here at a later date.

I'll close today with these...

"Make this world a better place, love more, hate less." --Megan Rapinoe

...and, the best news I've ever read about climate change...

One to One-and-a-Half Trillion Trees


Plant Trees - Billions of Them

A Day to Read the Declaration of Independence

This seems like a good time to read The Declaration of Independence from our National Archives. When I read it this time, it felt different than studying it for a high school or college class assignment. As I said aloud each of the signer's names, a feeling waved through me. The signers inked their names on the document despite a near certainty there would follow a reckoning.

And it did. The outcome of the ensuing seven years of war was an ending and a beginning. The signers are all long ago gone. So are all the people who stepped up for it, those who didn't, and gone are the oppressors. But the Declaration is still right here with us, accessible, alive as we are. And that gives me chills.