Heart

Between writing my last poem and this one that I am about to share, I discovered something about myself.  Something that I have felt for a long time but didn’t know that it was a real thing and therefore I would just get frustrated with myself for what I thought were just weaknesses and challenges...Read More

Gardening has been on my mind so much lately because I have been spending a lot of time envisioning, dreaming about, designing, and creating my dream garden over the past several weeks.  I find that a lot of the thoughts and impressions that I have about gardens want to be expressed, so I wrote this...Read More

I wrote another poem the other day.  It was largely inspired by a Well-Educated Heart post from my friend Marlene. “I have had something on my mind the last several weeks. Let me connect a few of the dots that have been connecting for me. As I have studied the writings of the heart educators,...Read More

I went back and forth about sharing this because it’s personal and special to me but I settled on choosing to share.  A tradition that we started this past Christmas season was to have a special evening of sitting next to the Christmas tree as a family and each sharing something that we created, to...Read More

I went to a party recently where we were supposed to bring a gift that represented our favorite thing(s). The gift that I wanted to share was Well-Educated Heart because these resources that Marlene has gathered have greatly blessed my life and I wanted to share that with others. Since it was Christmas time I...Read More

I made my very first sweater from our sheep wool (and my first sweater ever)!  It was quite the process and I think that between washing and carding the wool, spinning the yarn, and knitting the sweater, it probably took me about 150 hours to complete.  I made it for Jershon for Christmas and although...Read More