by ashevillewitch | Dec 28, 2015
I’m meeting with my web guru tomorrow to move all of this blog to the new website and to conquer the world of MailChimp so that newsletters from me can at last re-commence. In the meantime, in this week between, I’m reposting a few Facebook thoughts for...
by ashevillewitch | Dec 3, 2015
Here in this blustery day, sit in silence for a few minutes (if you can) and listen to your breath. Let the wind spin the hamster-thoughts from your head and down the road. There is sorrow in the world, in your world. There is fury there, too. But this old Earth has...
by ashevillewitch | Dec 3, 2015
Last night, in celebration of homeliness, I sat in a comfy chair, with a good light shining over my left shoulder and I read a book. The first chapter of “Linnets and Valerians” to be exact. There was some soft old jazz on the radio. The house was quiet. I...
by ashevillewitch | Dec 2, 2015
homely—simple, but cozy and comfortable, as in one’s own home; simple and unpretentious (Oxford Dictionary), plain or ordinary, but pleasant I have returned home from nearly a week away, not entirely unpacked, looking forward to routine reasserting itself in...
by ashevillewitch | Dec 2, 2015
What if you chose to be proactive in this Tower Time of ours? What if we–each of us–simply said, enough is enough? There’s a truism in the non-profit world about tackling a big, complicated problem–“how do you eat an elephant? One bite at...
by ashevillewitch | Nov 23, 2015
Many of us are leaving our comfy hearths behind us to venture into the houses of kith and kindred, hoping for a slice of pie without too much sturm und drang. Is that even possible in these chaotic and polarized times? Maybe. Maybe with a few guiding principles. ...
