You know winter has truly arrived when minnows live in your basement sink and your husband is fishing on the lake at 2 a.m. in below zero temperatures. Personally, I plan to wear long underwear until the thaw. Holidays wrap up and commercials, social media posts, magazines all begin notice of the cultural mandate: New … Continue reading Resolution
Winter Solstice is here. In the North light has been obscured by weeks of snow clouds. The falling flakes offer beauty for the brown dreariness at the end of autumn. The freezing lakes replace open and moving water. Everything in nature seems to grind to a halt while we rush to finish shopping for the … Continue reading Stillness of winter solstice
Behind the veneer of holiday hustle and bustle, for some of us there runs a secret river of sorrow. The cultural curtain of joy and good cheer can mask the most prominent cause of December tears: relationships. The holidays are advertised as jolly and bright and in many ways, and for many people they are … Continue reading The fullness of love
This morning I woke up early to find a mouse sitting on the kitchen counter, eating a crumb, looking down on and watching intently the three cats staring at their empty food bowl waiting for it to be filled. Sigh…you just can’t make this stuff up. Waiting is hard work. I have waited for something … Continue reading Waiting Advent
The 4th floor can be a busy place, especially the nurse's station. Patients pace up and down the halls holding on to the arm of an aide or IV pole, strengthening their legs and stretching their minds out from beyond the ivory-toned rooms. Lunch carts and doctors take the corners tightly in an effort skirt … Continue reading Painting Advent: A Metaphor in Waiting
Andrea Tatley 