This April, we’re taking a break from our regularly scheduled programming to encourage, as Bati Boatmin once said, right before he went over the Ohmawordatsabigdrop Falls, “Chin up.”
At least, that’s what we think he said.
Robin Lythgoe
Author of As the Crow Flies
I’ll bet your email box and social media feeds look a lot like mine: they’re full of news and information about COVID-19. It’s easy to get lost in all the noise! But as the weeks have gone by, I’ve seen a subtle change. A beautiful change…
Patricia Reding
Author of Oathtaker
There is nothing like a pandemic to bring out the best in some people and things. Here is a list of ten things that over the past weeks, have encouraged me and/or for which I have found myself most grateful. With the exception of No. 1, they are not in any particular order of importance …
Parker Broaddus
Author of A Hero’s Curse & Nightrage Rising
I’m thankful. Thankful it’s Spring. Thankful it’s April. Every day brings new life. We dig in the dirt. The boys collect bugs and worms. We tend to a garden that has slept well all Winter, and is ready to wake as Spring sings it awake. I have more time at home, as many do, and I find opportunity to catch up on projects and chores that have waited patiently.
Painting my garden barn has taken up many of the hours. It is a quiet, contemplative activity. Maintenancing tools, carefully tending the borders of our tiny kingdom, picking up sticks and leaves and deadfall from the colder months – these afford time and space for contentment.
It is not an easy thing, practicing contentment. But pursuing peace is definitely worth the effort.
“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
I’d love to hear how you are weathering this storm.
Blessings and peace to you.