Trusting the Thaw
Continue Reading: Trusting the ThawMarch arrives quietly, often caught between winter’s lingering chill and spring’s first whispers. Snow may still cling to shaded corners. Trees may still appear bare. And yet—beneath the surface—life is …
Selflessness
Listening to the news, no matter what channel, often portrays the opposite of selflessness. With crime and war being reported around the clock, political slandering of one candidate or another, Continue Reading
Inspiration
I woke this morning, January 1, 2024, to a small covering of snow. After the rain that our area endured during the Christmas season, I found this to be inspiring. Continue Reading
2024: Empowering Family Caregivers through All Seasons
Happy New Year! Every new year brings remembrance, review, and resolutions; it also brings change. The change can be small, such as writing a different year on financial documents, to Continue Reading
Journey
The holiday season helps us reminisce and reflect. Traditionally, it is about migrating and moving into a new year; about evaluating and setting resolutions for change. Thoughts and questions under Continue Reading
Notes from the Garden: The Tree of Life
December Plant of the Month: Tree of Life doTERRA Essential Oil of the Month: Clary Sage If we surrendered to the earth’s intelligence, we could rise up rooted, like trees. – Rainer Continue Reading
Gladness
Thank you for joining us this November month of 2023 as we celebrated caregivers during National Family Caregivers Month and our Hope Grows 8th Annual Celebrating YOU! event, our 7th Continue Reading
Health & Nutrition with Chef Hanna: Trail Mix Cookies
“Food is our common ground, a universal experience.” – James Beard There is debate as to how and when the Pittsburgh cookie table came to be, but there is no Continue Reading
Notes from the Garden: Coffee & Connection
October Plant of the Month: Coffea arabica doTERRA Essential Oil of the Month: Douglas Fir On the global level of plant consumption and connection, coffee is an international mogul. It’s Continue Reading
Connection
As Autumn Equinox marked the change of seasons in September, celebrating others through the harvest, pumpkins, and change of leaves creates connection, which is our focus for the month of Continue Reading
Health & Nutrition with Chef Hanna: September 2023
“Laughter is brightest where food is best.” – Irish Proverb We use food not only to nourish our bodies, but to share and connect with those around us. One of Continue Reading
Reflections from the Iris Respite House Healing Gardens September 2023
“The earth laughs in flowers.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson Laughter knows no bounds. Like the natural world, it serves to connect. Truth and innocence often carry it. It can serve Continue Reading
Reflections from the Iris Respite House Healing Gardens August 2023
Apple trees are ominous. They’re not just for food. They bear the tempter’s power. Don’t hang out around them. If you do, eat at your own risk. Mythologically speaking, apples Continue Reading