I often wonder …

When the required work calls for arduous care and attention to detail …

When the labor is dirty, challenging and onerous …

When the drudgery of monotony can feel exhausting and toilsome …

Since ancient times, gathering the harvest has been vitally important. Harvesting events in the agricultural season is where whole communities would turn out to bring the harvest home. A harvest supper was held once the last of the harvest was brought back to the farm. For us, we appreciate the gathering of folks to break bread, share some soup and gather around a fire.

Throughout each of our lives, there have been many Unions (of all sorts) - and within our marriage (without losing our own individual identities), there has been a single Union of the heart.

In my blog written on the 29th of August 2021, I wrote about Warriors and my students who represented such.

We were just returning back from a year of ZOOM and my students and I were getting to know each other in-person. (all over again)

I wrote about their resiliency and how I wished I could look into a Looking Glass into the future of their 8th grade year to see the results of our connection efforts made over ZOOM with them during their 5th grade year.

Aurora Borealis

"Shine like the whole universe is yours" — Rumi

“Dude, I normally wouldn’t do this, but the Northern Lights are out right now.” Benjamin’s roommate, Antoine, wakes him up in the middle of the night.

Aurora Borealis is a natural light display recently seen by my son, Benjamin, in Kenai, Alaska. The Northern Lights fill the earth's sky, typically in the northern hemisphere. (Unless of course you live below the equator, you may encounter a different experience).

Remember these famous Calgon commercials?

“Calgon, take me away!!!”

As dated as this seems today, the need to get away from the stressors of life is just as relevant.

If you ever feel like you need something to “take you away,” well, I think I have something JUST FOR YOU!

I would like to write about something this year that brings me joy …

Pumpkins.

You see, I have The Most Sincerest Pumpkin Patch growing in my front yard. You must understand this one thing, I seek no presents from the Great Pumpkin - I just seek joy in watching my vines grow and spread their leaves across my yard attaching their tendrils around the garden boxes integrating with the rose bushes; one of them even embedded itself within the rose bush and is producing a decent sized pumpkin!