Author Archives: Espirational

Food for the Road

One lesson we  learned the hard way is the importance of traveling with healthy food.  When traveling by car we carry an ice chest with food for meals for the trip as well as snacks. We take salad on road trips to help keep us eating healthy.  Sometimes I take the ingredients and mixed them up whenContinue reading “Food for the Road”

Celebrating the Small Things: Spring Flowers, Finally!

We finally have flowers on our patio.  I decided we just wouldn’t have flowers this year because extremely strange weather conditions made the availability of annuals late. There have been other years I have decided not plant flowers, like the years when residents above us kept dropping cigarette butts and sometimes lit cigarettes on ourContinue reading “Celebrating the Small Things: Spring Flowers, Finally!”

Thought for Today

“It is a lovely thing to turn away from busy work to pay attention to our loved things and loved ones. We know how we wait to be told we are important. We should never wait to say or think something beautiful that will make someone’s day easier and more secure.”  — Joyce Sequichie Hifler AContinue reading “Thought for Today”

An Awakening

“No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.” — Kahil Gibran from The Prophet My last semester of college I found myself in a different religion class than I had enrolled in. The instructor had left over the summer. So I thought I hadContinue reading “An Awakening”