“The Peaceful Side” of Christmas
Two Cups of Tea at Hope’s Cafe We live not far from Smoky Mountain National Park, the most visited national park in the United States .Nestled midst the thriving tourist sites of Gatlinburg and Dollywood is the village of Townsend, TN, billed as “The Peaceful Side of the Smokies,” for its much smaller area, quieter…
Home Is Where the Heart Is
Home Is Where the Heart Is Two Cups of Tea at Hope’s Cafe “You will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart will always be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place.” This quote showed up in my…
Sparks in the Dark
Two Cups of Tea at Hope’s Café In a previous blog several weeks ago, I made reference to a book I had discovered and intended to order called Hope in the Dark. Since receiving it, I have been steadily working my way through it, not so much seeking answers as seeking anchors, something solid in…
Cheers!
Two Cups of Tea at Hope’s Café Fresh off a week of celebrations with friends and family, first Thanksgiving, followed two days later by my husband Terry’s 80th birthday party, I am deeply aware of the role we play in loving, supporting and cheering each other on through life. However, with three grandchildren I witnessed…
The Pioneer
Two Cups of Tea at Hope’s Cafe Having grown up in northern Oklahoma, known for the Cherokee Strip Land Run September 16, 1893, and home to the Pioneer Woman statue located in Ponca City, I had a rather romantic notion about pioneering. Pioneers were rugged, resourceful, adventurous people. I thought I would have loved to…
Healing
Two Cups of Tea at Hope’s Cafe In a moment of despair, fearing that the recent fall I took might have done some real damage to my back. I turned to a sure-fire remedy: poetry. Actually, I went to my email to search for a favorite site “inward/outward.” There I found a post on healing…
Chain of Gratitude
(Please note: Somehow the quote last week about setbacks did not actually come through when published. It was: “Giving up on a goal is like slashing your other three tires because you got a flat.” And the blog previous to that included a quote attributed to Albert Camus. I discovered the only sentence that he…
Setbacks
Two Cups of Tea at Hope’s Cafe While visiting our grandchildren in Maryland, just at the 6 month post-surgery milestone and was doing very well, our 6 y.o., in a burst of exuberance, ran towards me to hug me just as I came inside after a walk. I wasn’t expecting it, wasn’t prepared, wasn’t “planted.” …
Reset
As I seek to make my way through the present state of affairs here and abroad, I periodically have to do a “reset.” Today I found some things I thought worth sharing for others who might need a reminder that we can seek light. We even have opportunities to be light to others. From Albert…
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