We just passed the half-way point of our Heart Cleanse that I might be renaming Soul-Cleanse because that’s what seems to be going on. Something deep at a soul level is happening. A levity has entered our sphere. “Have you been doing our little cleanse thing?” I ask Snopes. “In my head,” she replies. I nod. And ask, “Have you noticed a levity? I mean, it seems like with the boys, all of us, a lightness is there.” “I know,” she says – almost wide-eyed – and nods....

The Heart Cleanse continues (40 day feast – practicing gratitude, kindness & mercy), and opportunities abound. This offered a lovely morning greeting after a wonderful (yet hard) college send-off weekend in San Antonio last weekend. The boys held down the fort while the girls traveled and dropped off. Why the open cereal boxes? Why not just close them and put them away (& other counter-stuff for that matter?) I don’t know. But with a genuinely happy heart...