Summertime is fireworks season and, no matter what my driver’s license says, those technicolor explosions bursting overhead always make me feel like a child. “Ooh!,” I gush after each booming display. “Ah!” Even after hundreds of fireworks shows I still wonder at the beauty of a nighttime sky lit with blooming colors: “wow!” There’s something…
Category: Nature
Savoring What You Have Today: A Garden of Gratitude
My favorite place to scribble in my journal is at my local botanical garden. Even though I visit regularly, there is always something new to see. I’m always amazed at how the ever-changing cycles of the natural world seem to reflect my own lived experience. Life is a lot like a garden. We plant seeds—of…