Tag: self care

  • Les Vacances

    Les Vacances

    When I first began learning French a few years ago (and I’m still very much a novice, but I enjoy the challenge), I was delighted to learn that the French word for “vacation” – les vacances – is plural. I think that tells you a lot about the culture right there. (Mind you, the productivity of France…

  • Four Rooms – Week 3

    Four Rooms – Week 3

    I’ve now been doing the “Four Rooms” approach for three weeks. To recap, this has been a season of “spiritual housecleaning” spurred by  Rumer Godden’s observation that “Everyone is a house of four rooms, a physical, a mental, an emotional, and a spiritual. Most of us tend to live in one room most of the…

  • Four Rooms – Week 2

    Four Rooms – Week 2

    Two weeks ago, I began a sort of “spiritual housecleaning” by acknowledging the truth of British writer Rumer Godden’s observation that “Everyone is a house of four rooms, a physical, a mental, an emotional, and a spiritual. Most of us tend to live in one room most of the time, but unless we go into…