Author: Beverly J Smith
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Love and a Loaf of Bread
One day I took her a loaf of bread. Soon, she reached out. “My mother doesn’t eat much. She loves your bread. Would you mind bringing us more?” “Of course!” Love and a loaf of bread opened the door.
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Can It Just Stop?
Ever feel like life just won’t stop coming at you? Like you keep getting pounded, pummeled, slammed over and over–one thing after another. And, every one of those things is huge? I mean, can’t something be easy? Small? Better yet, can it just stop?
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Just the Facts
“But it’s fiction,” you might say. Agreed. I would counter, however, that sometimes just the facts aren’t enough.
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Meet the Mayor
“I’d like to meet the mayor. Have you seen her?” The store clerk behind the counter shrugged. “No. But you might check outside. She likes to roam around.” Talkeetna’s mayor is a cat. Well, actually, that depends on who’s telling the story.
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But I Wanted Them
He shrugged as if this was a perfectly reasonable explanation for taking something that belonged to someone else. In his five-year-old mind it made sense. But looking at his face and his body language, he also knew it was wrong.
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The Naming of Cats
“The naming of cats is a difficult matter, it isn’t just one of your holiday games; you may think at first I’m as mad as a hatter when I tell you a cat must have three different names.”
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Italy
The beauty of the Italian countryside draws me back. I can see myself sitting on the terrazzo sipping chocolate and reading a good book. Or, maybe taking one of the trekking or mountain biking trails that lead from the hotel through the Valleriana, “Switzerland Pesciatina”— ten castella or characteristic medieval villages in the region.
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I Want To
To quote Sandra Bullock, “The rule is you have to dance a little bit in the morning before you leave the house because it changes the way you walk out in the world.” I want to do life like that.
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Do not be anxious
What keeps you awake at night? What worries snap you out of a drowsy state or haunt your dreams when you do manage to fall asleep? When anything we care about is at risk, we all have the capacity to be anxious.
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Who is my neighbor?
Who is my neighbor? Maybe the better question is “To whom should I be a neighbor?”
Are We There Yet? 