Follow-Up: I Found Magic!

Posted on August 27, 2014 by Karen Molenaar Terrell

In this morning’s post I invited everyone to join me in finding the magic hidden in the day – and look what I found! – red bark glowing on a tree; a sweet pea peeking out of the pines; I got into conversation with a woman, Flora Lucatero, who is a fitness expert with AdvoCare, and discovered that her dad is good friends with my husband!; and as I was waiting to get my hair done, Daniel, one of the massage therapists, came out to offer me a free hand massage. I said yes. 🙂

sweet pea in the pines

Daniel

Flora

red bark

seagull with a beak full of lunch

kayakers on Bellingham Bay

cool rocks

There is magic in today…

Posted on August 27, 2014 by Karen Molenaar Terrell

…let’s get out there and find it! 🙂

Birthing Books

Posted on August 27, 2014 by Karen Molenaar Terrell

If books are an author’s children, then I am now a grand-author. 🙂 The youngest son published his first book yesterday – a book of poetry – and it’s FANTASTIC! I mean… really FANTASTIC! I knew the son had some talent from the scribblings I’d chanced upon now and then while tidying the house. But when he generously shared his poems with me a couple of days ago, my mouth, literally, fell open! Ahem… and like any proud grandma, I have to share a photo of my new grand-book, right?

And a couple weeks ago I found myself giving birth to another book myself – a Christmas book. In August. Yeah, I know. But our books come when they come (and don’t when they don’t, too), and my Christmas book decided to come in August. And my fellow authors will understand that, once the labor begins, there is no way to stop the book from coming…

Here’s the paperback link (it’s also available as a Kindle book) – http://www.amazon.com/Madcap-Christian-Scientists-Christmas-Book/dp/1500855154/ref=la_B0044P90RQ_1_1_title_0_main?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1409147148&sr=1-1

I love books. We can never have too many. We can never be over-populated with them. More! More! Give me more to write! Give me more to read! 🙂

Isn’t It Great to be Alive?!

Posted on August 25, 2014 by Karen Molenaar Terrell

Think back on the last five years of your life, my friend. Think of all you would have missed if you’d given up on life then – the new friends you never would have known; the sunrises and sunsets you wouldn’t have seen; the lessons you wouldn’t have learned, and the changes you wouldn’t have been able to make; the pictures never painted; songs never sung; all the love and laughter you would have denied yourself… isn’t it great to be alive?!

photo of Mount Shuksan by Karen Molenaar Terrell

“Doctor, am I dying?”

Posted on August 25, 2014 by Karen Molenaar Terrell

“No, you’re living.”

photo of sailboat on Bellingham Bay by Karen Molenaar Terrell

That IS Life!

Posted on August 25, 2014 by Karen Molenaar Terrell

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans – John Lennon

I use to think if I could just get through this appointment, and that meeting, and the scheduled event I could get on with living my life – and then it hit me – WHOAH – that stuff IS my life! I know. Duh, right?