Category: Gratitude

  • Untitled post 5412

      We all have days or moments that take us back in time, when a sudden and unbidden memory fills you with its imagery and emotion. I noticed today’s date, March 15, the Ides of March.

  • Heart-Lifting for Disheartening Times – Storytelling Gives PERSPECTIVE

    Heart-Lifting for Disheartening Times – Storytelling Gives PERSPECTIVE

    It’s all so overwhelming and it seems everyone is tired, discouraged, maybe angry or cynical or depressed, maybe confused or disheartened…just weary. Each day during this April A-Z Blogging Challenge I’ll offer a short musing on an aspect or two of the many ways the ancient-yet-very-contemporary experience of storytelling – both listening…

  • Heart-Lifting for Disheartening Times – Storytelling Contributes LIGHT to the World

    Heart-Lifting for Disheartening Times – Storytelling Contributes LIGHT to the World

    It’s all so overwhelming and it seems everyone is tired, discouraged, maybe angry or cynical or depressed, maybe confused or disheartened…just weary. Each day during this April A-Z Blogging Challenge I’ll offer a short musing on an aspect or two of the many ways the ancient-yet-very-contemporary experience of storytelling – both listening…

  • Heart-Lifting for Disheartening Times – Storytelling Brings JOY

    Heart-Lifting for Disheartening Times – Storytelling Brings JOY

    It’s all so overwhelming and it seems everyone is tired, discouraged, maybe angry or cynical or depressed, maybe confused or disheartened…just weary. Each day during this April A-Z Blogging Challenge I’ll offer a short musing on an aspect or two of the many ways the ancient-yet-very-contemporary experience of storytelling – both listening…

  • Heart-lifting for Disheartening Times – Storytelling begets GRATITUDE

    Heart-lifting for Disheartening Times – Storytelling begets GRATITUDE

    It’s all so overwhelming and it seems everyone is tired, discouraged, maybe angry or cynical or depressed, maybe confused or disheartened…just weary. Each day during this April A-Z Blogging Challenge I’ll offer a short musing on an aspect or two of the many ways the ancient-yet-very-contemporary experience of storytelling – both listening…

  • Close Encounter – A Story of Gratitude

    Close Encounter – A Story of Gratitude

    Re-sharing a favorite post from May 2016 on Gratitude… Well. I waited at the red light, to pull out of my neighborhood and make a left onto the four-lane main thoroughfare to head south. When it turned green I still waited a bit as the car to the right that…

  • Grateful for the Sognefjord and Sogna Sue

    Grateful for the Sognefjord and Sogna Sue

    So I just posted this on Facebook this morning: “It’s seriously challenging to assemble thoughts and energy when grieving, yet it’s also good and beneficial to have good things to plan and prepare for…while seriously challenging… I have several really good such things coming up! Tonight is one: A gig…

  • Respite

    Respite

    Like many, in addition to ongoing layers of personal and professional life, I’ve been overwhelmed by so much in the news…So, blog has been silent…though thoughts have been many… And so just for a bit of respite for myself, today I set down a few morning observations like I do…

  • Close Encounter – A Story of Gratitude

    Close Encounter – A Story of Gratitude

    Well. I waited at the red light, to pull out of my neighborhood and make a left onto the four-lane main thoroughfare to head south. When it turned green I still waited a bit as the car to the right that had been waiting for its chance to turn left…

  • Musings on Story Crossings and Connections

    Musings on Story Crossings and Connections

    The name of this blog and my website is Story Crossings. As it says on my Home page: “Our stories cross – intersecting, as well as bridging divides – creating connections so that differences don’t have to be barriers.”