The Games of the XXXIII Olympiad will be held in Paris this summer from late July until mid-August, but the tenth annual Linden Lodge Driveway Olympics will be held one afternoon only, at our cabin up north on Lake Mildred. Tickets are going fast but are still available (for both the Paris games and the Mildred games) but if you don’t care to travel, you might consider creating your own games with friends, family, or neighbors in your own backyard. May I offer you a few tips for setting up your “Olympics?”
Tag: Letters from Linda
Remembering not to forget: Memorial Day
when Labor Day has come and gone, When the season has changed from summer to fall, let’s not forget what we remembered this summer so as to take notice when the calendar calls us to celebrate Veterans’ Day.
Half way there?
have you found a way to bring the fullness of the “source and summit” more alive in your life? I’m trying, but I struggle. I struggle because I still fall short of my goal which, in part, is to experience overwhelming joy in the power of the Presence every time I receive Communion.
The old-age test revisited
It’s been almost two years since you and I took that old-age test together, and unless my memory is failing, we all passed with flying colors! We were definitely not old then, but perhaps it’s time to re-visit another version of that exam – just to make sure.
Toast for a winter wedding
Dear Readers,
I wish you could have been with me at my son’s wedding last week. The beautiful Nuptial Mass was celebrated at Holy Mother of Consolation Church in Oregon with a lovely reception afterwards down the road at a banquet hall overlooking the valley.
Since you weren’t able to be there, I thought I might at least share with you the toast I gave at the dinner; I’m fairly sure you can relate to what I was trying to say:
Reflecting on resolving
If 640 million of us succeeded in keeping resolutions designed to improve the content of our character and not just the beauty of our bodies, we just might make the world a better place in which to live.
Don’t leave home without it!
Dear Readers, Have you ever left home without your cell phone?
Those magic words
Dear Readers,
Most new teachers struggle mightily during their first year in the classroom; I was no exception.
The old-age test
Dear Readers,
Finally! A more reliable way to tell if you have arrived at old age!