Prayer

3 Sep, 2021

Happy Labor Day Weekend

Nancy Admin2021-09-03T06:00:00+00:00Categories: Holidays, Labor Day Weekend, Prayer|

Sending out prayers and affirmations for prosperity and healing for every individual, for every community, for every nation on our planet. May you know joy. Taking a break this week. [...]

13 Aug, 2021

Spirit Animals

Nancy Admin2021-08-13T06:00:00+00:00Categories: Musings, Prayer, Spirituality|Tags: affirmation, American River Parkway, depression, Hiking, human connection, jack rabbits, languishing, levee, lockdown, Pandemic, Prayer, sadness, spirit animals, trail, vaccination, walking|

Over this past year and a half of pandemic and lockdown, it was a blessing that so many of my family, friends, and acquaintances remained healthy and free of the [...]

30 Jul, 2021

Law of Gravity

Nancy Admin2021-07-30T06:00:00+00:00Categories: Musings, Poetry, Prayer|Tags: Caroline Myss, Chakras, depression, Earth, forest, gravity, lock down, Mother Earth, ocean, Pandemic, planet, Poetry, Prayer, root, Sacraments, summer reading, Why People Don't Heal and How They Can|

This summer I’ve been re-reading one of my favorite spiritual books, Why People Don’t Heal And How They Can, written by medical intuitive Caroline Myss, back in 1997. The book covers many topics, [...]

2 Apr, 2021

Easter Greetings/Pandemic Edition

Nancy Admin2021-04-02T06:00:00+00:00Categories: Current Events, Easter, Families, Grace, Holidays, home, Hope, Joy, Musings, Prayer, Spirituality, Spring|Tags: Easter, Good Friday, good works, holidays, Jesus, Kennedy family, Pandemic, same sex couples, Special Olympics, Tim Shriver|

I think I can say without fear of contradiction that this has been a weird year. And hey!--suddenly, it's Easter again. It feels rather surreal. Like many people, I have [...]

26 Feb, 2021

Goose Girl

Nancy Admin2021-02-26T06:00:00+00:00Categories: Flash Fiction, Grace, Hope, Humor, Poetry, Prayer, Reality|Tags: Goose Girl, Hope, Hummel figurine, Lost Causes, Prayer, Saint Jude|

St. Jude showed up at my door today with a little package tightly wrapped in pale blue paper, adorned with a large clump of curled white ribbon (he’d obviously had [...]

22 Jan, 2021

My Capitol

Nancy Admin2021-01-22T06:00:00+00:00Categories: Current Events, Families, home, Hope, Memory, Musings, Prayer|Tags: capitol buildings, devotion, home, inauguration, January 6th 2021, public service, state capitals|

I have lived in the city of Sacramento, the capital of California, my entire life. So it was disturbing a few weeks ago to learn that alt right organizations were threatening [...]

30 Oct, 2020

Sheltering, Part 4

Nancy Admin2020-10-30T06:00:00+00:00Categories: Autumn, Books, Covid 19, Creativity, Current Events, Dia de los Muertos, Dream fulfilled, Election Day, Halloween, Holidays, home, Hope, Imagination, Joy, Literature, Magical Realism, Musings, Mythology, Prayer, Reality, Sheltering-in-Place, Soul, Spirituality, Writing|Tags: Dia De Los Muertos, Divine Energy, Election Day, Emotions, Halloween, Introversion, novels, Prayer, Sacredness, Samhain, Sheltering, Spirituality, Truth, Writing|

We’ve all been “sheltering” now, to one degree or another, for seven and a half months. Initially I was both alarmed and secretly pleased—because suddenly I could be my introvert self [...]

25 Sep, 2020

In Memory of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Nancy Admin2020-09-25T06:00:00+00:00Categories: Current Events, Grace, Grief, Hope, Memory, Musings, Prayer, Soul, Spirituality|Tags: Endurance, fear, Freedom, Harvard, Memorial, Prayer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme Court, Women's rights|

I dedicate this week’s post to the memory of a great American hero, a supreme court justice, mother, grandmother, wife and beloved role model for women everywhere, Ruth Bader Ginsburg. [...]

18 Sep, 2020

Wagons

Nancy Admin2020-09-18T06:00:00+00:00Categories: Children, Creativity, dreamscape, Grace, home, Hope, Imagination, Joy, Light, Magical Realism, Memory, Musings, Prayer, Reality, Sheltering-in-Place, Soul, Spirituality, Teaching, Writing|Tags: art, Children, fantasy, Imagination, manifestation, Play|

Years ago I had a student named Joseph who was deaf and mute and on the autism spectrum. He was 9 years-old, with big brown eyes, and sandy hair. I [...]

11 Sep, 2020

September 11th

Nancy Admin2020-09-11T06:00:00+00:00Categories: Current Events, Demonstrations and Protests, Grace, Grief, Joy, Memory, Musings, Prayer, Spirituality|Tags: Climate Change, coup, History, Iran, Middle East, Pandemic, Prayer for healing, September 11, Wildfires|

September 11th, 2001, was a big emotional punch to the gut to all of us, everywhere. Most particularly to those on the east coast of course, but we were all blindsided [...]