Currents July 2022
With several landmark decisions having recently come from the Supreme Court of the United States of America, the word “choice” is pulsating in headlines, social media posts, conversations, commentaries, and…
Choosing To Be the Hero of My Story
I am training my tree. I have this vision of how it will look many years from now. It will be different from the other trees in my new-construction neighborhood…
Choose to Change, Rewire Your Heart
This month we celebrate our freedom to choose. An important facet of this gift is that it opens the door for us to choose to change. I am grateful that…
Choosing Freedom and Joy
Over the past few years, I’ve been coming across more and more information and resources that teach the fact that our thoughts carry power — for good or for bad.…
Free to Choose
What does it mean when we say, “We are free to choose, and willingly accept responsibility for our choices?” Today, I’ll share some of my thoughts on this subject, but…
Meet Big Ocean: Kaylee Gwilliam
Kaylee grew up in St. George, Utah, USA and is the second oldest of seven children. She lived in a tight-knit community where the children played night games together regularly…
On Potlucks and Picnics and the Poetry of Food
The cookbook is old, the spine broken in places, pages faded and stained, dotted with water from being left too close to sinks and glasses, smudged with the remnants of…
Choose to Feel Your Feelings
There certainly are times in my life when I have NOT felt free to choose. At times, when circumstances seemed bigger than me or when I felt like a victim,…
Communication Choices
Of the almost innumerable choices we make daily, perhaps the most consequential are the ones that impact those around us. The words we choose to use, our tone of voice,…