I’m dealing with a great deal of a mental load right now. As you may already have learned, if you read my last blog post, Margo Murillo, one of my dearest and oldest friends in this little swath of the Midwest died unexpectedly this past Friday. I am still doing a great deal of processing […]
Tag: peace
Mourning
It’s with a heavy heart that I write this. Tragedy has struck once more in my little world. A life has been sadly snuffed out. Margo was one of the first friends I had made at the tiny church I attend in my little swath of the Midwest. She was a teacher at the high […]
The Joy of Childhood
There’s a gumball machine at my workplace, one of the good old fashioned ones where each gumball just costs a quarter. Watching the glee on children’s faces as they clutch coins between their fingers and run towards it always makes me smile. The excitement of candy, the anticipation while trying to guess what color gumball […]
Treasured
I have some words written on my bathroom mirror in dry erase crayon. They change when I clean my mirror, but for the most part, they have the same theme: Don’t let anyone steal your magic. Be the (love, good, change, joy, hope, peace, magic) you wish to see in the world You are loved […]
Weddings and Funerals
I was recently at a wedding for one of the other half’s oldest friends, whom we call his sister even though they are not blood related. It was a wedding to which we traveled almost four hundred miles over the course of a day. Many of the old friends had gathered for this wedding, bringing […]
Reflections and gratitude
Despite starting this blog as an outlet to talk about writing in general, I realized that I haven’t done a blog post in a bit where I just talked about where I am in my writing. So here goes. **Note here – I’ve linked to other blog posts if people are interested in anything I’ve […]
Journeys
Have you ever set out on a journey without having a destination in mind? I may not have done so on a road trip, but sometimes, especially on walks around my neighborhood or neighborhoods wherever and whenever I am visiting a new place, I often just go wherever my feet take me. Sometimes, we don’t […]
Let the divisions fall
Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth president of the United States of America, once paraphrased a verse that shows up in three different Gospels when he spoke at the Illinois Republican State Convention, in Springfield, Illinois on the 16th of June, 1858: “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” It was a quote Jesus gave, according to Matthew […]
Let It Go
Anger can be used as a powerful tool. When it is justified, it can be used to move mountains, to change atrocities, to right wrongs. But far too often, we hang on to things mentally and physically that fester. We dwell on past wrongs that will never be made right. We harbor resentment for things […]
Let your roots grow wide
In college, I had the opportunity to travel from Orange County, California to San Francisco for a weekend for my California History and Government class. One of our stops was the John Muir Woods National Monument, where I got the opportunity to see redwood trees for the first and only time so far in my […]
K. S. Wood Writes 