Topping Off the Granite Path Near the beginning of my prayer garden adventure in 2011, I made a granite path from each side of the front of the house all the way around to the back. It’s basically a full circle around the house. I started on the left side (read A Pathway of Living Stones ), and then the right side, which leads to my storage area. The back was last. It was quite a lot of work, but fulfilling and enjoyable, with God speaking to me along the way. I began by lay

One Thing Leads to Another Last month I resurfaced the granite path through my garden, observing that “one thing leads to another”. And now, I’ll tell you about the "other". As I worked at wetting and tamping the freshly laid decomposed granite around the concrete patio in back, I thought how nice it would be to have some stepping stones off the patio to step on to. But my vision wasn’t just a simple stone or two, or three…I envisioned a work of art: you know, the beautiful s

March 2019 Last month I wrote about cleaning out the clothes closet and paring down both décor and essentials. I’m happy with the simple, clean look. A box of once-treasured vintage items and some things in the attic that I hadn’t touched in 12 years will soon be a memory of times past. (Now as I rewrite this, I regret donating that box. My daughter is now a vintage re-seller, but it was necessary at the time.) One of two halves of an unknown type of wood that my brother must