Tuning Out the Noise Through Nature and Silence

I live in an area of my city that’s near a hospital and a fire station, so the sound of sirens is frequent. The people in my neighborhood take care of their yards, so the mingled sounds of lawn mowers, edgers, and leaf blowers are nearly constant. Add to all of...

My First Holy Grounding

Photo Credit: Cindi Oakley Johnson, Mayodan Moravian Church Today is my home church’s homecoming. I say “home church,” because it’s the church I attended my entire childhood and youth and of which I remain an associate member. It provided the...

BEING a Human Being

My new bolster on my yoga mat…. yummy! If this pandemic has taught me nothing else, it’s certainly taught me to live in the moment and to take time to really BE. When everything came to a screeching halt in March 2020, a lot of people learned really...