Inspirational quotes
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Seasonal nostalgia: revisiting a Christmas essay
Cindy La Ferle “Christmas weaves a spell of nostalgia. Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance: A day in which we think of everything we have ever loved.” ~Augusta E. Rundel Given the necessary restrictions for parties and family gatherings, Christmas won’t look quite the same this year. But even without a pandemic, this otherwise festive holiday can strike a melancholy chord for anyone suffering a loss. Not long after my mother was officially diagnosed with vascular dementia, I wrote an essay on the bittersweet aspects of Christmas memories for Read the Spirit, an online interfaith magazine founded by…
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The bright side
“Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home. It’s your responsibility to love it, or change it.” ~Chuck Palahniuk Cindy La Ferle Miss any posts this week? For more content and social media sharing options, please visit the home page.
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Playing Santa
“The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.” ~attributed to Mark Twain Mom’s Santa collection / Cindy La Ferle Miss any posts this week? For more content and social media sharing options, please visit the home page.
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Thinking ahead
“All good men and women must take responsibility to create legacies that will take the next generation to a level we could only imagine.” ~Jim Rohn Sunset on Lake Michigan / Cindy La Ferle Did you miss any posts this week? To view additional content and social media sharing options, please visit the home page.
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Small sparks of happiness: More notes from my quarantine journal
Apollo, December 2020 / Cindy La Ferle “The world gives you so much pain, and here you are making gold out of it. There is nothing purer than that.” -Rupi Kaur December 10, 2020 So here we are, barely two weeks away from Christmas. Most of us are still hunkering down at home while Covid-19 spreads faster than a California wildfire. Reading the morning news, I was hit with the astounding fact that more than 3,000 Americans died yesterday from the virus. Meanwhile, half the country refuses to accept the results of the 2020 presidential election, and the talking heads won’t stop talking about it. I’d hoped that the…
