A Year of Reflections: Week Twenty-Six

by | Jul 30, 2025 | Year of Reflection

Voyaging Beyond the Storm: Grief and the Power of Grace Ruth Ann Stites, Staff Writer, with Rosa Floyd, Guest Writer In the summer of 2013, my mother passed away. My sisters and I shared responsibilities that summer, but one thing I had to relinquish was taking part...

A Year of Reflections: Week Twenty-Five

by | Jul 23, 2025 | Year of Reflection

Summer’s Abundance Ruth Ann Stites, Staff Writer One of the pleasures of the season of the summer solstice is a drive through the verdant countryside with the light of early evening making the newly cut hay golden. If you drive down a country road with your windows...

A Year of Reflections: Week Twenty-Four

by | Jul 16, 2025 | Year of Reflection

Longing for the Heart’s True Home Ruth Ann Stites, Staff Writer The Wind in the Willows provided us with the imagery for a longing for home last week. Mole finds his old home and leaves it again for adventures in the “upper world.” This week I want to look at that...

A Year of Reflections: Week Twenty-Three

by | Jul 9, 2025 | Year of Reflection

Leaving Home for the Wider World Ruth Ann Stites, Staff Writer As you have no doubt guessed, I like unusual words. Here’s a good one anthropomorphism defined as “the attribution of human traits, emotions, or intentions to non-human entities.” In literature this...

A Year of Reflections: Week Twenty-Two

by | Jul 2, 2025 | Year of Reflection

How We Will Be Measured Ruth Ann Stites, Staff Writer In our Reflection for Week Twenty-One, I told the stories of two people who lived about 3000 years apart in time, Julia Child and King David. Not only did they live millennia apart, but their deeds were also vastly...