- The Power of Listening
- The Almonds Are Falling
- With A Little Help From My Friends
- Practising Due Diligence
- Thanks to the Beach Workers who Support our Community
- Persistence Finally Has Its Rewards
- The Case to be Made for Having Expectations
- Patience – What is it anyway?
- Taking Time to Play
- Moving Gently Through My World
- Dealing with Change: Challenge or Opportunity
- The Fisherman’s Wait
- Sometimes You Need to Just “Take it Off the Menu”
- How Does One Define Health?
- Look Up, Way, Way Up
- A Playful Consideration of Perhaps a Message Received
- Balancing Time Alone and Time Together
- Being Gentle With Ourselves
- Purpose: is it Nature or Nurture?
- Waiting For A Guide
- The Power of Listening
- Goals versus Expectations How are these different?
- Remembering the First Call of a Buried Dream
- Barriers Can Be Opportunities
- Contrasts of The Moments Give Us Understanding
Dear Judith,
The exquisite, brief vignettes that you present always take me right to your side and calm me. I see your people, the water and the trees. In particular, I see the path you’re taking or the floor you’re standing on and the sun is always shining. (No sand in the air!)
Linda Thank you I can always count on you to feel with me the peaceful joy of this lovely place.
Yes,. I know all these people too from my daily walks throughout the community. They are delightful and hard working people; always a smile and a kind word or greeting we exchange. They feel safe to come here and go about their work each day. I really admire these people, not a lazy bone in their body!
Thanks for the reply Yvonne This is a wonderful place that we share.
Thanks for sharing the story behind people I have seen so many times. I’ve never stopped to see what you saw and just shared. There is a whole other economy at work.
Thanks Susan I have this country to thank for my new awareness of life around me.
So beautifully written. I can visualize these Dominican workers, so tanned and going about their work. The almond lady is wonderful. Wished I could meet her.
Thanks for taking the walk with me Nori. Hope someday we can do that in person.
I so enjoyed reading your story. I can visualize the people going about their work. The way you describe them brings me there.
Thanks Gloria I am happy that this can bring you here in your mind’s eye – Hope you will be here in person soon.
I felt as if I was there, transported by your descriptive vignette. These hard workers will likely never be Fortune 500 CEOs, yet they are truly resilient, supportive to their loved ones, and good stewards of the planet as they reduce, reuse, and recycle.
Thanks for visiting, Felicia. I hope you will do so often. How very well you can understand and recognize the spirit of the people here.