Shine on!This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine, This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine,This little light o’ mine, I’m gonna let it shine,Let it shine, let it shine, let it, Shi – i – ine!Writer unknownI used to require my Public Speaking students to read aloud the Marianne […]
Author Archives: Catriona OCurry
How We Might Save Our Planet
"We are living parts of this living body of earth” – Joanna Macy. It may well be the challenge of our century and the primary responsibility of education, to foster an understanding among our species that nature is beautiful because of her inherent divinity, and that the health of our biosphere depends on the health […]
Emerging Light
Today, the blue sky is the one that has persisted and won, so everything I look at glistens with mystery and meaning. The bits of dirty snow on the sides of this country road remind me, as I scatter one or two of them with a few swift kicks, that before too long Frank’s bees […]
Musing on Love
There are two sides to love. One side is kind. The other is truthful. I believe that unless we tend to both, it isn’t love. My friends and family certainly get both. I am not just nice to them. I don’t just tell them what they want to hear. They know where I stand with […]