by Joy Thacker | Jan 26, 2017 | soul talk
Note: To view the full article, scroll past (below) the video here … Welcome back! Last week, we ended our talk on the discordant note of not having enough. Of scarcity. Oh? You maybe had hoped I would have said something happier, such as...
by Joy Thacker | Jan 15, 2017 | soul talk
I am enough. Three little words. Have you ever “stepped outside” of yourself unexpectedly — and seen something you’ve missed all along? As if seeing the Little Dipper for the first time as a butcher’s cleaver? I mean, it was always there, but for some reason...
by Joy Thacker | Dec 30, 2016 | soul talk
Traditionally each Christmas, we turn back the clock of time a couple dozen years, and pull out the home videos to watch our once-little children open their Christmas presents all over again. Seeing their joyful tiny faces and hearing their squeals of glee is...
by Joy Thacker | Nov 16, 2016 | soul talk
For the Minestrone recipe go here. For the Mushroom & Wild Rice recipe go here. For the Fall Pumpkin Soup go here.
by Joy Thacker | Nov 16, 2016 | soul talk
by Leslee Clark It is 7:03 AM. I hear a little knock on my door. I lie still, hoping my silence will be a deterrent to the three year-old on the other side. “Blella? Blella, are you up?” comes the little voice through the door. So it is, that my first choice...
by Joy Thacker | Nov 16, 2016 | soul talk
From Joy … Dear Heart Working Women, It was delightful to meet so many of you at our premiere Heart Working Women Event. The conference decorations joyfully arranged at the Harrison House for November 5th have been taken down, the delicious food we shared...
by Joy Thacker | Nov 8, 2016 | soul talk
by Julie Leppert I watch my friend’s back now turned toward me as she boards the Amtrak passenger train in downtown Cumberland, MD. In the heart of the Allegheny mountains, she steps up into its entrance as I call out her name. “Leslee!!!” She can’t...
by Joy Thacker | Oct 30, 2016 | soul talk
by Lydia Bugosh You know my whole “Bloom where you’re planted” motto that I say so often I sound like a broken record (how could you not)?. Well, that little mantra of sorts gets me through a lot and is a simplistic reminder that each minute, each second is woven with...
by Joy Thacker | Oct 18, 2016 | soul talk
by Kristina Peterson My husband was driving us home. The tires rolling down the icy road, so quiet you could hear a pin drop. My thoughts were gnawing at me when I finally said, “I don’t think I love you anymore” According to The Huffington Post the divorce...
by Joy Thacker | Oct 12, 2016 | soul talk
“The eye is the lamp of the body; so then if your eye is clear, your whole body will be full of light.” (Jesus, Sermon on the Mount) “The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof.” (King David) Noticing Beauty — Part 3 Part 1 here Part 2 here by Julie...
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