One thing we've learned this summer is that a house is not an end in itself, any more than "home" is just one geographic location where things feel safe and familiar. Home can be anyplace in which we create our own sense of rest and peace as we tend to the spaces in which we eat and sleep and play. It is a place that we create and re-create in every moment, at every stage of our lives, a place where the plain and common becomes cherished and the ordinary becomes sacred.
I take the seashell from my jeans pocket and rub my fingers across its silken, indented surface, shallow as my own open hand. This chalice, subtly sh… - Katrina Kenison
I take the seashell from my jeans pocket and rub my fingers across its silken, indented surface, shallow as my own open hand. This chalice, subtly sh…
- Katrina Kenison
...there is no such thing as a charmed life, not for any of us, no matter where we live or how mindfully we attend to the tasks at hand. But there ar… - Katrina Kenison
...there is no such thing as a charmed life, not for any of us, no matter where we live or how mindfully we attend to the tasks at hand. But there ar…
Growth and transformation occur not by changing who we are, but as we summon the courage to be who we are. - Katrina Kenison
Growth and transformation occur not by changing who we are, but as we summon the courage to be who we are.
Solitude is the soul's holiday, an opportunity to stop doing for others and to surprise and delight ourselves instead. - Katrina Kenison
Solitude is the soul's holiday, an opportunity to stop doing for others and to surprise and delight ourselves instead.
We are the windows through which our children first see the world. Let us be conscious of the view. - Katrina Kenison
We are the windows through which our children first see the world. Let us be conscious of the view.
Perhaps the real point of life is simply to wear us down until we have no choice but to start abandoning our defenses. We learn that the way things a… - Katrina Kenison
Perhaps the real point of life is simply to wear us down until we have no choice but to start abandoning our defenses. We learn that the way things a…
As I loosen my grip on the past, as I keep taking one small step after another in the direction I want to go, I discover I'm being supported and guid… - Katrina Kenison
As I loosen my grip on the past, as I keep taking one small step after another in the direction I want to go, I discover I'm being supported and guid…
Meaning and purpose come not from accomplishing great things in the world, but simply from loving those who are right in front of you, doing all you … - Katrina Kenison
Meaning and purpose come not from accomplishing great things in the world, but simply from loving those who are right in front of you, doing all you …
It has taken awhile, but I certainly do know it now – the most wonderful gift I had, the gift I finally learned to cherish above all else, was the … - Katrina Kenison
It has taken awhile, but I certainly do know it now – the most wonderful gift I had, the gift I finally learned to cherish above all else, was the …
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