by Kit | Mar 29, 2019 | On Living, On Loveliness, Reasons to Believe
Updated 4/14/2021 Around this time of year I hear myself and others lament, “It’s spring! What’s with these freezing temps (or rain or snow.. or all three)?” As if we’re meant to go right from winter to summer, to suddenly arrive under Eden’s blue sky on March...
by Kit | Feb 19, 2019 | On Living, On Loveliness, Think About these Things, Whatever is Lovely, Worthy of Praise
Choose joy,” they say. But how? My friend Erik just marked a bittersweet anniversary, a decade passed since a snowboarding accident left him paralyzed, confined to a wheelchair. Yesterday Erik wrote this: “It was ten years ago today that I lost my ability to...
by Kit | Oct 30, 2017 | On Living, On Loveliness, Poetry, Whatever is Lovely
Oh, October! So much to admire, to ponder, and only a wisp of time to do either. Here’s the season when creativity comes in gusts but awe strikes me dumb. Plus, I’m overly sentimental and half-crocked on chai tea lattes. I’m like the chunk of...
by Kit | Sep 19, 2015 | On Loveliness, Pin-couragement, Reasons to Believe, Uncategorized
In Sweet Home Alabama, young Melanie and Jake stand on the beach under stormy skies. She asks, “Why’d you wanna marry me for, anyhow?” Jake says, “So I can kiss you anytime I want.” I drove ten minutes for this lake view. And it’s...
by Kit | Oct 14, 2014 | On Loveliness, On Marriage
[typography font=”Shadows Into Light Two” size=”20″ size_format=”px” color=”#8db09e”]{First posted a number of Octobers ago, this piece expresses my wonder and gratitude for the simple things Garth does that make me feel...
by Kit | Sep 26, 2014 | On Loveliness, Think About these Things
Clouds conceal the mountaintops today. Thick and gray. Foreboding even. But I have a hunch something is happening behind the clouds, beyond what my eyes can see. There’ve been clues: the temperature plummeted yesterday, and it is autumn, after all. So I’m...