Daily Life

Welcome March!

Barbara Marincel

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March 1, 2018

It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart. Rainer Maria Rilke

Wordless Wednesday (But Not Really)

Barbara Marincel

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January 17, 2018

We have just endured several weeks of a painful cold snap here in Minnesota–you know, the kind that makes your face hurt every time you go outside, and a high temperature that straggles above zero degrees Fahrenheit is cause for celebration? One member of our little family, however, is a champion at keeping warm. It’s …

My parents have been dead a long time. Or not so long. It depends on my mood, how long it seems. My mom died in April 2007, my dad in January 1993. I often wonder what advice they would give me now, about being childless, being disabled and in chronic pain and often frustrated and depressed. Then, by chance, today I came across a quote that spells out what I know in my heart they would both say to me so perfectly, it gave me chills. In fact, I can hear my mom’s voice…

November 27, 2017

Stories

Barbara Marincel

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November 20, 2017

Everybody is a story. When I was a child, people sat around kitchen tables and told their stories. We don’t do that much anymore. Sitting around the table telling stories is not just a way of passing time. It is the way the wisdom gets passed along. The stuff that helps us to live a …

Wordless Wednesday: A Love Sonnet to October

November 1, 2017

Wordless Wednesday

September 6, 2017

One last summer pic before the switch over to fall, which currently is my favorite season. (Although if you ask me next April, yes, spring will be my favorite season…in June, I most likely in will say summer…and of course there is one season being left out which will remain nameless, although I love it in December as long as it brings us pretty, fluffy snow for Christmas.)

Little Bits of Good

August 28, 2017

Do your little bits of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the soul.

Desmond Tutu

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A Moment of Zen

August 25, 2017

Is anyone else developing an eye twitch? Grinding their teeth? Having trouble sleeping?

I think we can all use a moment of zen…so here you go, friends, from the South Shore of Lake Superior:

(Edit) N.B. Credit for this lovely video goes to my wildly talented photojournalist husband, George Marincel. Easy to see why he’s won eight or nine Emmy’s, isn’t it?