Entries by Bethany

A Season of Waiting

Reading around a few other blogs (Chocolate Is a Verb, for instance), I find that I am not alone in feeling frantic and wishing 1) that I had more time and 2) that Christmas were over. This is a season of waiting. My daughters can’t wait for it to be Christmas. Can’t wait to find […]

“I like to think of the mind as a room.”

“I like to think of the mind as a room. In that room, we keep all of our usual ideas about life, God, what’s possible and what’s not. The room has a door. That door is ever so slightly ajar, and outside we can see a great deal of dazzling light. Out there in the […]

Secret Rooms

Perhaps because of last night’s windstorm, and our power outage, I had that dream again, the one in which I remember that my house has secret rooms. A realtor was trying to list our house, and I felt that she had undervalued it. Oh, I thought, I know just what to show her! I started […]

What Are Your Blocks?

“Most of the time when we are blocked in an area of our life, it is because we feel safer that way.” (Julia Cameron, The Artist’s Way, 30) While composing this post, which was going to be, mostly, a quotation accompanied by a photograph of a logjam, I went on-line to find a good picture, and then […]