Above most other things, that is what I want my home to be. A sanctuary. A place for people to be accepted completely, loved unconditionally, and welcomed with joy. A place of rest. This does not always happen. I have lived with people whom I was not willing to accept, love or welcome. I [...]
Archive for the ‘Small Moments’ Category
From The Palace – Sanctuary
Posted in Clinicals, Growing, Small Moments, Thankfulness on 25 October 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Small Moments – Fitting in the Knitting
Posted in Knitting, Small Moments, Thankfulness, tagged Jean Greenhowe, Knit Toys, Knitting, Rainbow Babies on 10 October 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Our lectures rarely start on time. Choir rarely starts on time. I find myself with many small moments – too small for homeworking, but definitely large enough for little knitting. It is good to do something with less potential for exposure to infectious disease. Plus, you never know when you will need a sharp stick [...]
Small Moments – Walking Home
Posted in Growing, Small Moments, Thankfulness on 6 October 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Small, tired voice on the telephone. One word answers, but not sullen. So sleepy. Bedtime soon, after reading.
Thumping feet in the hallway. I can hear them even from this far away. A second sleepy voice, “Watcha’ doin’ tonight?“ Her standard greeting.
“I was singing. Lots and lots of singing.”
“What kind of singing?”
Breathe in, from close to [...]
A Good and Joyful Thing
Posted in Growing, Small Moments, Thankfulness on 5 October 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A year ago, I wrote about having the chance to ask for forgiveness. And about that forgiveness being given readily. I don’t think I wrote about taking communion the next day. About standing in the front of the church and truly feeling, for the first time in many, many years that I had “come with [...]
La Picadura de Garrapata
Posted in Overheard, Small Moments, tagged Mosquitoes, Overheard, Small Moments on 14 August 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today was another long day of sitting and reading. I am hoping this is because of my foot and not because they think I like sitting around doing next to nothing all day. I did hear they will be putting me to work on Monday, so that is good news. There are no more relevant [...]
Small Moments, Big Question
Posted in Clinicals, Growing, Overheard, Small Moments, Thankfulness, tagged Clinicals, Community, Small Moments on 12 August 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Planning road trips. Wondering what to wear, what book to read aloud in the car. Imagining listening to the radio on scan and laughing at small things glimpsed through small windows.
Reading instrument manuals and package inserts, trying to learn principles. After the tenth word is written in the margin with a question mark behind it, [...]
Seen Out and About: signs that made me laugh
Posted in Clinicals, Small Moments on 28 July 2009 | Leave a Comment »
At the hospital: Keep out of light. Store in the dark.
Between here and there: Mini-self storage. For clones gone wrong?
On one of the instruments: a circle with a line through it, crossing out…an elephant? No elephants near the vitamin D machine, please! Upon closer inspection, the elephant turned out to be a pacemaker. This makes [...]
Monday Madness – Small Moments
Posted in Small Moments on 27 July 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Discussing a co-worker’s upcoming GRE. She laments, “And the vocabulary! Who uses all those words anyway?”
I blush. “Me. I use those words.” Not an hour later, I use the word litigious in a sentence without even thinking about it. She blinks.
“Wow. You really do.”
Best sign of the day: Warning! Flammable. Keep Flame Away.
For people [...]
Small Moments: From the Floors
Posted in Clinicals, Small Moments, Thankfulness, tagged Small Moments, Thankfulness on 24 July 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A nearly casual question about a book in the windowsill led to a heartbreaking story of love and loss. The storyteller thanked us for listening, but really it was the two of us who should have done the thanking.
Stopping in the hallway between two rooms, preparing supplies. Between the monitor beeps and the call bells, [...]
Saturday Morning at the Palace
Posted in Small Moments, Thankfulness on 11 July 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It does seem like a palace. To live in a room three times the size of my room back home. To have a closet. A dining room. Porches galore.
The morning light wakes me early, the best sort of alarm clock. I wonder what waking here will be like in the winter. When people hear I’ve [...]
