When you are given a quick unexpected turn in your everyday world. The focus shifts to what? Survival or recovery? Can they both be achieved at the same time? Three steps to follow: Don't accept defeat. Repeat number one. Keep moving.

Seasons of hope and recovery. This takes spiritual focus. A believers life doesn't just happen, which is why we must trust the walk and way. It's time to rise above our challenges, to be stronger in faith and forgiveness. It's never gonna go the way we assume. Forgiving our faults helps us grow forward.

Thanks for being part of the conversation I am the Poet In The Forest. A children series I penned out in the 1990s. None of it would be possible if it wasn’t for this forest in South Charlotte, NC. I talk about it so much that I thought maybe it’s time you get to meet all that inspires me. Thanks for being part of the conversation

The importance pf creating windows in your very busy day. Everybody around you wants something right now. How do live up to the expectations? Putting your Google calendar to work by respectfully creating the open spaces between events. I call them windows.

The word goodbye is never brought up. I don't see an end but rather a continuation. Our eyes are locked in on foreseeing and not being mindful of what we truly see. It's how we live in our realms of reality. Foreseeing where we'd like to be is greater than knowing how the experience is being played out.