A prompt from 13 Steps to Awakening: “Just be present. #wiaddc” (CC BY-NC 2.0) Image by dnkbdotcom Homework Remember the last time you lost control, which caused you a lot of emotional or physical distress, perhaps even resulting in a financial loss. Describe what happened. I have to admit it is very difficult for me to remember a situationContinue reading “Homework: Being Present”
Author Archives: Sandra Yeaman
Homework: The Value of Time
A prompt from 13 Steps to Awakening: “time” (CC BY 2.0) Photo by Sean MacEntee I came across the 13 Steps to Awakening series when the blogger, Alex Moses from A Life Answer, liked one of my book reviews. The first of the 13 steps included a scenario I found intriguing for a short post. The lesson alsoContinue reading “Homework: The Value of Time”
Book Review: Leaving Before the Rains Come
“‘The problem with most people,’ Dad said once, not necessarily implying that I counted as most people, but not discounting the possibility either, ‘is that they want to be alive for as long as possible without having any idea whatsoever how to live.’” Alexandra Fuller learned from her parents how to live. She has lived enoughContinue reading “Book Review: Leaving Before the Rains Come”
Book Review: Call the Midwife
Jennifer Worth’s first volume of her trilogy covers her transition from nurse at a regimented and hierarchical hospital to midwife in a convent where lay nurses work side-by-side with their cloistered, religious sisters in the docklands of the East End of London in the 1950s. She arrives at Nonnatus House convinced there is no GodContinue reading “Book Review: Call the Midwife”
Value of Time
A prompt from 13 Steps to Awakening: “Clock” (CC BY-ND 2.0) Photo by Jurgen Leckie “Imagine you woke up with a sharp pain this morning. You went to the doctor, they ran a bunch of tests and determined that you have a stage 4 cancer with less than 30 days to live. What thoughts will be going through yourContinue reading “Value of Time”
Book Review: Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness
Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness is Alexandra Fuller’s second book covering her family’s experience in east Africa. The first, Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, which her mother describes as an Awful Book, tells the story from her perspective. In Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness, she expands the story to includeContinue reading “Book Review: Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness”
Book Review: The Man-eaters of Tsavo
The Man-eaters of Tsavo by Lt. Colonel J.H. Patterson, first published in 1907, steps the reader back in history to the 19th-to-20th turn of the century to an area at a time when place names reflected the non-Africans who arrived and set out to tame the continent. The initial chapters of the book tell ofContinue reading “Book Review: The Man-eaters of Tsavo”
Bees Everywhere
A few weeks ago we bought a rotating composter in order to take up gardening and reduce our waste footprint. I even read that composting is a positive step to address our water shortage in California. All good things. What could go wrong? Sunday I noticed a couple of bees flying around the composter whenContinue reading “Bees Everywhere”
My Gmail Junk Filter Isn’t Working
“Pile of junk mail” (CC BY-SA 2.0) Photo by Judith E. Bell I guess a consequence of taking part in the a-to-z challenge during which I discovered so many wonderful bloggers is that Gmail concluded all the messages resulting from my subscribing to blogs were actually junk mail. Yikes! I had nearly 400 messages in the junkContinue reading “My Gmail Junk Filter Isn’t Working”
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