Archives for August 2013

Yoga by the Freeway

On Tuesdays in the summer, I go to an outdoor yoga class at our gym. We lay our mats down by the gigantic pool, under the water slide, and do yoga as the sun goes down and the stars come out. It’s an interesting study in contrasts, and somehow encompasses how I see my suburban […]

Funerals at Home

Episcopal Cafe’ ran this piece I wrote as “The Daily Episcopalian” last Friday. Funerals at Home Recently, I presided at a tiny home funeral. Twenty people gathered in the living room of a mother and son, approximately aged 90 and 60, who had died on the same day. I’ll call them Leona and Joe. They had […]

Cross Stitch Samplers

Some mottoes the Vicar is considering immortalizing in needlepoint for her study wall… Stop trying to fix everything.   You’re not as important as you worry you are.   It’s about you, but it’s not about you. – Marie Fortune   God, please help me not to be such an ass. – Anne Lamott   There […]

Suburban Vista – July 2013

Restored prairie and Black-eye Susans with subdivision and storm clouds.