Frank Lloyd Wright's Carl Schultz house
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Learning from the past
“To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others have been here before me, and I walk in their footsteps. The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples. I am the sum total of their experiences, their quests. And so are you.” ~Elie Wiesel December morning on the St. Joseph River / Cindy La Ferle Miss any posts this week? To view featured content and other new material on this blog, please visit the home page.
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Sheltering Wright: My essay in NEWSWEEK
“The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.” ~Frank Lloyd Wright It’s hard to believe a full year has passed since the global pandemic reshaped the way we live every day. Last spring, when the monotony of living in lockdown set in, Doug and I decided to spend more time at our Wright home (the Carl Schultz house) in St. Joseph. Prior to the pandemic, we’d put a great deal of effort into renovating and upgrading the home and its surrounding property — but rarely took time to actually live in the place and enjoy the results of our labor. The pandemic motivated us to change that last year, and it inspired an essay…
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Gardening Wright
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Forgiveness
“To forgive is to put oneself in a larger gravitational field of experience than the one who first seemed to hurt us. We reimagine ourselves in the light of our maturity and we reimagine the past in the light of our new identity. We allow ourselves to be gifted by a story larger than the one that first hurt us.” ~David Whyte, Consolations Sunrise in St. Joseph / Cindy La Ferle Did you miss any posts this week? For more content, and social media sharing options, please visit the home page.
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The reward
“The reward for breathing is not applause but air, and the reward for climbing is not a promotion but new sight, and the reward for kindness is not being seen as kind, but the electricity of giving that keeps us alive….The reward for uncovering the truth is the experience of honest being. The reward for understanding is the peace of knowing.” ~Mark Nepo, The Book of Awakening The view from the bluff / Cindy La Ferle Miss any posts? For more content and social media sharing options, please visit the home page.
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A pandemic birthday: Notes from my quarantine journal
Silver Beach, St. Joseph / Cindy La Ferle “Each experience in your life was absolutely necessary in order to have gotten you to the next place, and the next place, up to this very moment.” ~Dr. Wayne Dyer August 6, 2020I tend to feel more ambivalent about my birthday as I age. I’m grateful for my life — and all the people and animals I’ve loved. Yet I still experience a vague sense of melancholy, knowing that time is moving ahead quickly and will, eventually, leave me behind.Celebrating a birthday — your own or someone else’s — is especially poignant during a pandemic. Mortality stares us down daily on the…
