A New Year – Red Tent Living

Turning the Page

By: redtentwomen January 3, 2022December 8, 2021

Day to Day, Intentional Living, Monthly ThemesA New Year, Control, daily planner, Maryhelen Martens, Planning, Releasing, Spontaneous Living2 Comments

In and out of my purse it goes. Here and there in my home it moves. Shiny black cover, spiral bound, carrying my “life” inside of it. As I moved into the elementary school years of my kids two decades ago, I began to tote this “August-to-August” pal. The style of an At-a-Glance weekly planner…

Womaneering 2021

By: redtentwomen January 1, 2021December 13, 2020

Day to Day, Femininity, Intentional Living, Monthly Themes2020, A New Year, Christy Bauman, internal critic, Mothering yourself, New Years Resolutions, Word for the Year2 Comments

Phew! We made it to the end of 2020. As a mental health practitioner, I know that every human psyche subconsciously exhaled a little when they woke up this morning. New Year’s Day is here…welcome to this n-e-w year! My friend Leah says her favorite day is the first day of the month because she…

Anam Cara

By: redtentwomen January 28, 2019January 26, 2019

Day to Day, Dinner, Intentional LivingA New Year, Change, desire, Grief, Hope, Red Tent Dinners, Susan Tucker6 Comments

“Never let the fire in your heart go out. Keep it alive.” Romans 12:11 The entrance into the new year has surprisingly been held in the embrace of anam ċara. “Anam ċara means soul friend,” John O’Donohue writes. “The anam ċara was a person to whom you could reveal the hidden intimacies of your life.…

Even If

By: redtentwomen January 3, 2019January 2, 2019

Day to Day, FaithA New Year, Daniel 3:18, growing faith, Mallory Redmond, Meshach and Abednego, New Years Resolutions, Shadrach, Waiting1 Comment

There’s just something about a new year. It’s a period, not a comma. A hard stop. That was last year; what does this year hold? We have no idea, and maybe that’s the best part.

Chaos and Rigidity

By: redtentwomen January 6, 2017January 6, 2017

Day to Day, Intentional Living, relationshipsA New Year, Libby Kurz, Resolutions, stranger than fiction8 Comments

“And we must remember that all these things, the nuances, the anomalies, the subtleties, which we assume only accessorize our days, are effective for a much larger and nobler cause. They are here to save our lives.” – “Stranger than Fiction”