What’s better than carrying a secret with a cheeky smile and hopeful heart?
BabyOregonian, Meditations, Musings, Short and Sweet and Scattershot, The Little Peach
Orbit
March 18, 2014Here we are, on the far side of the sun.
At that half-way point between birth-day and birthday.
Closer to one than zero.
babyOregonian turned six months old this week, and planet earth’s orbit is headed back toward that place in space where we hung in the skies last September 17th.
Funny what seems new, what feels familiar.
Destinations, Meditations, Musings, Spain
Semana Santa: Observing Good Friday in Barcelona, Spain
March 28, 2013On a dreary Friday afternoon near the end of Holy Week, Semana Santa as it’s known in Spain, the weathered streets of Barcelona pulsed with pilgrims and onlookers mesmerized by the beats and passions of the traditional Viernes Santo procession commemorating the sorrow of Christ’s sacrificial crucifixion.
Ted and I found ourselves standing in the Spanish city’s Good Friday throng mere hours after disembarking from our transatlantic ship crossing. Leapt we from lavish cruise ship surroundings and memories of blissful blue ocean waters into the brooding atmosphere of a seaside city in mourning. Easter on the horizon, but death and darkness first. Continue Reading…