Practice! Practice! Practice!
Two Cups of Tea at Hope’s Café “Hope is a muscle,” I read recently. Elsewhere I heard on a podcast to “practice hope.” Maybe they are onto something. This topic is especially relevant at a time when there are so much uncertainty that despair would seem to be a more reasonable response. “To hope in…
Heroes
Two Cups of Tea at Hope’s Café In these tumultuous times, I find myself on the alert for heroes, those who have survived difficult times by virtue of their persistent and determined attitude. I came across the story of Tibor “Ted” Rubin, a Hungarian who was liberated from a concentration camp by American soldiers. He…
Glowing Up
Two Cups of Tea at Hope’s Café Glow Up, Folks! I am a little late to the party, having only discovered this phrase recently. For the uninitiated, this means: “a significant positive transformation in appearance, confidence, or overall presence, often reflecting personal growth and self-improvement.”(Copilot) This can refer to a change in personal appearance or in a larger sense, to increased confidence, a noticeable difference in how one presents…
Eating Mischief for Breakfast
Two Cups of Tea at Hope’s Café My quilter/blogger/good-all-around person and friend Mary, has been writing recently of quilt shows she has attended. (zippyquilts.blog) She mentioned one which was labeled as made by “a recognized quilter who ate mischief for breakfast.” What a delightful description. I think I shall aspire to “eating mischief for breakfast!” …
Catch a Falling Star
In the 1950s and 1960s Perry Como crooned “Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket, save it for a rainy day.” These “stars,” actually meteors made of space debris burning up, have fascinated cultures through the ages. Informations gleaned from Go2 Tutors reveals some of the variety of interpretations of these events:…
The Wonders We Seek
Two Cups of Tea at Hope’s Cafe My first encounter with the quote “We carry within us the wonders we seek” struck me as a kind of ephinany. As a newly trained therapist, this one statement put in perspective that my task involved helping folks find the wonder, the capability, they carried within, to assist…
The Sibling Society and The Child Within Us
Two Cups of Tea at Hope’s Cafe Years ago I read Robert Bly’s The Sibling Society in which Bly asked “Where have all the grownups gone?” Adults have regressed into adolescence, Bly wrote, and adolescents refuse to grow up. Has maturity gone out of style I wonder? What is it that inclines us toward resisting…
Grief and Guilt
A blue striped fabric covered notebook with letters spelling “Poetry” sat on a little bookcase in my parents bedroom when I was growing up. I looked at it once but didn’t pay that much attention. It had a lot of clippings of poems and articles that my mother had found worth keeping and it had…
Spaciousness
Two Cups of Tea at Hope’s Cafe When I was in high school we had an exchange student from Japan who was amazed at the open spaces of northern Oklahoma, at that time still populated by large swaths of farmland. When we moved to Montana, known as “Big Sky Country,” I was amazed at how…
Manners & Morality
Two Cups of Tea at Hope’s Cafe Edmund Burke argued that culture, which he called “manners,” is more important than politics. Manners, he wrote, “are of more importance than laws. Upon them, in great measure, the laws depend…Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a…
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