By Daylight savings time arrives on March 10 this year. On that lovely Sunday morning we spring forward…meaning 5 am becomes 6 am. You can check out Wikipedia to learn more than you ever cared to know about springing forward and falling back. DST was first implemented in the US with the Standard Time Act of 1918, a …
Gratitude Challenge – Girl Scout cookies!
Years ago, Girl Scouts had to act as door to door salesmen, hitting up neighbors for cookie sales. Now I get an email from my niece, who is a girl scout/my supplier, with a link. And every year I say I’m not going to buy any or I’m going to buy and donate to the …
Gratitude challenge – Grateful for a walk in the woods
A few weeks ago I attended a chorale concert entitled ‘Come to the Woods’. The concert was conducted by Michael O’Neal and sung by his hand-picked ensemble group Kaleidoscope (side note – here’s the link to their site – if you get a chance, please see them). The concert was full of songs that spoke …
Gratitude challenge – music
While one picture paints a thousand words, for me music expresses so much more than a painting. Music conveys complex imagery through words, emotions, unified or atonal sounds. Today’s gratitude challenge is about being grateful for the music in your life. It doesn’t matter if it is country, christian, rock, emo, classical, pop. Music has …