by Kate | Oct 26, 2012 | Uncategorized
Kind Promise: I will appreciate blessings. Around me beauty sings its melodies I cannot stop my soul from its reply When yellow, red and orange blaze through the trees And dawn turns gold a spire that scrapes the sky These tunes are blessings to my shadowed life...
by Kate | Oct 19, 2012 | Uncategorized
Kind Promise: I will appreciate blessings… There are over 100 dogs in our building. Dogs in the city group together because it isn’t easy to find a landlord that accepts them. When I’m waiting for my bus in the morning, I watch owners emerging from...
by Kate | Oct 12, 2012 | Uncategorized
This month I have invited myself to focus on the blessings in my life. This seems like it should be incredibly easy, yet I just spent 20 minutes surfing for ideas. What’s hard about this? I am pretty good about saying “thank you” at appropriate...
by Kate | Sep 14, 2012 | Uncategorized
Kind Promise: I will advocate courageously. When I was 20, I spent time hanging out in the studio of a weaver, Don Antonio, in the village of Chalchihuites, Mexico. He taught me to spin at a great wheel made out of a bicycle while he wove woolen rugs on the loom...
by Kate | Aug 17, 2012 | Uncategorized
Kind Promise: I will ask for and accept help gracefully. “I did say ‘thank you,'” I thought this morning after wheeling out of the drugstore, “didn’t I?” I was waiting for a bus after a doctors appointment and nipped into the...
by Kate | Aug 10, 2012 | Disability, kind promises, Uncategorized
Kind Promise: I will ask for and accept help gracefully. When it comes to help, I am “high maintenance.” Because of my physical disability, there are not many things I can do without help. Despite what you might think from our...
