H(art) to H(art)
IN EARLIER DAYS of COVID, I wrote about returning to your instincts as a way to cope with the stress of such an unprecedented time. I wasn't thinking of it in exactly that way when first it happened to me. I just did what came naturally when reduced to a more...
Moments such as these.
SEVERAL YEARS AGO a writer and blogger I adore, Hannah Brencher, wrote a beautiful post about the pressure she feels in our inevitable rush to Christmas. It's a topic that is neither shocking nor eye-opening--I'll bet you've felt the pounding heart, as well, as we...
with thanksgiving
We'd planned it for a while, this trip to the mountains for Thanksgiving week, and we both knew it would do our souls well. It always does. There is a sweet gravity in these hills that anchors me, that sets my feet on solid ground and holds them there, working as a...
And here we are.
IT'S BEEN 13 weeks or so since Tim and I first had a casual conversation about listing our Bickley's Pond home for sale, and today, as I write this, I find myself standing at my desk in a new (to us) downtown house in my new studio space--a pretty pink bedroom we've...
Changing seasons.
IT IS NO coincidence, of this I am certain, that as I took five minutes this morning to flip through my recently ignored inbox, Maria Popova had sent me this via her always illuminating Sunday Brain Pickings newsletter: What, then, of autumn — that liminal space...
Letting go.
WE'VE BEEN CLEANING up, clearing out, readying for a change we've known for a while was coming. We're empty nesters now, you see, and we simply don't need the space. I love our home, our pretty yard, I love the vast collection of things which have come to reside with...
The Big Trip! Fly Fishing Fernie.
Canada's Elk River WHEN I WAS A LITTLE GIRL, I learned to fish on my great-grandaddy's boat. Every vacation we traveled from our home in Virginia to his retirement home in Florida, and my fondest memories are of being with him on the Lady Catherine (the name still...
Hi. I’m Cathy.
This is a blog about writing, creative living, and grace in the everyday. It’s my hope this little spot on the internet will be for you a place of quiet and reflection, a source for inspiration, and a reminder there’s beauty all around—we simply need to keep our hearts open to see it. Thank you for being here with me.