Annual Review
Two Cups af Tea at Hope’s Café May 1, 2020, I launch kateshopecafe.net. What were my goals at the time? I wanted to take advantage of the time afforded me by the pandemic when so many of my normal activities were suspended. I thought a blog would require me to be more disciplined at a…
Senior Moment, Wonderful Moment
Two Cups of Tea at Hope’s Cafe Some years ago a friend gave me the book this is getting old by Susan Moon. Being older now, some of its wisdom resonates more readily! She modifies Thich Naht Hahn’s quote “Present moment, wonderful moment” (still relevant of course) to “Senior moment, wonderful moment.” She describes these…
Gardeners of Hope
Two Cups of Tea at Hope’s Café This week a friend who had been out gardening sent a message that working there had left her feeling like a “gardener of hope.” The phrase has stayed with me. I have had the opportunity to sit in that delightful space she and her husband have created and…
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…
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