by Deb Farris | Jan 30, 2024 | Faith, Greater Good, Musings, Writing
On any given Tuesday at 10:30 A.M. you will find me at City Market on Capital Dr. in Milwaukee with my friends, Lizzy and Ann. Our history together is rich and deep and reaches way back through the years. My mom was there at Lizzy’s birth! I was not. But the story...
by Deb Farris | Jan 15, 2024 | Greater Good, Musings, Writing
In 1963, from the Birmingham Jail, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote: “We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” I’m sure it was not a coincidence that these words...
by Deb Farris | Dec 27, 2023 | Devotions, Writing
Since we waited four hours for friends to stop by on Christmas Day to drop something off, and I straightened and organized the house, got dressed, put on makeup, when all I really wanted to do was spend the day in my new gray sweatpants, I may do that today. We’ll...
by Deb Farris | Dec 20, 2023 | Advent, Musings, Writing
I was going to wait and post this tomorrow so as not to be annoying, you know? I’m always a little worried about that, but when I saw the “20th” day lit up on the ol’ Advent calendar in the lower left corner of the picture below, I thought I might better go ahead and...
by Deb Farris | Dec 19, 2023 | Advent, Devotions, Poetry, Writing
I was going to wait till the end of the week to post my reflection on Joy for the third week of Advent, as I’ve been doing. But then realized I still have to fit in Love before the 24th… The photos in this post are taken with the eye and hand of...
by Deb Farris | Dec 7, 2023 | Advent, Devotions, Nature, Writing
The photos in this piece are the work of Photographer/Writer Gary Fultz “There are many things we don’t have language for,” our instructor Tolu said last Saturday in the One to One Care class I attend. It made me stop. She continued. “Often we don’t have words to...