Our lives get complicated and when we add holidays and family gatherings to them we may take the complicated up exponentially. I try to see the players (characters) and plots in a perspective that shines a light on their strengths. Sometimes it’s tough. We all have that one relative (and you know who I mean) that we need to love in spite of, rather than because it’s easy. We live together, we fight over silly things, but we love each other. Come at a family and you’ll wished you’d been lowered into a pit with starving wild animals. We might taunt family, but no one else better!
As an author, family get togethers are fodder for writing! These stories surround gatherings, friends, family and group events. My wish is that you may embrace each individual in a way that brings new perspective and clarity and that your table brings rich Ohana to you.
Ohana= is the Hawaiian term for family whether by blood or by heart. And no family member is ever left behind. These 25 short inspirational stories about family will have you laughing, crying and maybe recognizing a few of your own family characters.
Tabella dei contenuti
1) Family Matters
2) Autumn Simplicity
3) Christmas Clarity
4) Christmas Flurry
5) The Colors of My Heart
6) Dogwood Wisdom
7) Embracing the Seasons
8) Endings, Middles and New Beginnings
9) “Falling in Love” vs. “Staying in Love”
10) Family: Blood or Heart?
11) Fine China
12) Happy Year of New
13) In All Things Give Thanks
14) Lasting Resolutions
15) Malama Ohana
16) Motion, inertia and friction
17) Perseverance Training
18) Stress or Joy?
19) Passing on the Blessing
20) The Gift that Keeps Giving…
21) The One True Gift
22) The Under-Estimated Little Things…
23) True Christmas Joy!
24) Wise Men Still Seek Him