by skimhenson | May 31, 2018 | love and grace, relationships
“There’s only one thing more precious than our time and that’s who we spend it on.” Leo Christopher In the past, I chose friends using the strangest set of guidelines: I let the other person decide if we were going to be friends no matter the circumstances, even the...
by skimhenson | Jan 23, 2018 | faith, pain
“Live (and die) so that anyone who knows you knows God is good.” The night before we left to meet family for Christmas, my husband John and I drove 45 minutes to Pawleys Island (Pawleys for short), a community where we bought a creek lot this past summer. We wanted to...
by skimhenson | Dec 20, 2017 | letting go
“Until your knees finally hit the floor you’re just playing at life, and on some level you’re scared because you know you’re just playing. The moment of surrender is not when life is over. It’s when it begins.” Marianne Williamson in her...
by skimhenson | Dec 7, 2017 | awareness and action
“Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.” Anton Chekhov Show, don’t tell. It’s how every writer wants to write and what every editor wants to read. Showing is the magic in Chekhov’s description of the moon. I’m figuring out that...
by skimhenson | Nov 3, 2017 | life improvement, writing words to live by
“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.” Hans Hofmann Simplicity is my word for 2018. The term showed up in a private Facebook message from a friend asking about my blog. Agnes and I talked about growing our...