As I write this, the three guys I live with are playing football on the other side of the floor-length living room windows. It is a hot, muggy Florida evening, my husband and two boys are enjoying some guy time, and my oldest son is going to college in three days....
I wrote this journal entry in 2003, right before my family's life changed drastically. It felt appropriate to share it here and now. Form Follows Function A journal entry by Licia Berry www.liciaberry.com 8-03 Who am I? God, please tell me. No, I mean, who am I...
Aha...it is starting to make more sense to me now....as the time grows nearer for our departure from the pristine San Luis Valley of Colorado, I can feel that our cycle of inward-ness is coming to a close. When we began the family journey in 2003, it...
When my beloved family of four began our traveling and inner search for our “family heart” in 2003, I thought it was something new for us. We had certainly never done anything like what we did before…leaving behind all of society and its demands and obligations, a...
Well, more changes to report in the never-ending stream of it our family has seen in the past year! Since the ankle break forcibly sat me down, I have become a person who is more still and who is becoming more quiet. I learned LOTS of amazing things during the whole...
“He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.” Friedrich Nietzsche Like most babies, I learned how to walk the first time by the age of 11 months. I crawled successfully at 8...
We are back in Colorado after our almost 6 month journey to find our new location; we have been here for a couple of weeks, getting settled in and focusing on healing. In a little while, we will start packing up and making our arrangements to get back to California....
To Carry-to take, to bear, to hold, to bring, to lug, to transmit, to transport, to convey, to transfer, to move, to pass on, to conduct, to relay, to contain, to include, to involve, to store, to supply, to keep (from the English Thesaurus) As a result of my injury,...
I was realizing that I have not written a straight family-whereabouts-update in ages, so for those of you who might be a little weary of my philosophizing, this is for you! We are in Pismo Beach, California and enjoying the most spectacular warm, sunny days and...
The family and I watched the inauguration with excitement this morning. 8:30 a.m. on the Pacific coast. Jess said as we woke him up, "It feels like Christmas!" I had to agree...the anticipation and exhilaration of this day feels like all goodness to me....