MINDFULNESS

t a k e i t s l o w.

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I completely understand now how so many friends have traded in blogging for other social medias; Android finally advanced with Instagram, and suddenly my visual...

the gardener

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          Even now I can feel him. Hands buried in my heart reaching to upturn old, unwanted roots long hidden from the...

“if we don’t feel the death, do we feel the resurrection?”

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Life’s been hell these last several months, turned up-side-down as they say, whoever they are — although heart-inside-out-and-shred-like-spaghetti might be more like it.  I know...

ode to spring break

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Hail to you, glorious break of Spring, drawing us outdoors into your warm breath, stretching our souls beyond the formal lessons that can banish our...

“Mom, can I be a dancing girl, even when I’m a grown-up?”

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All is quiet. But I hear it approaching, her spirit and body tapping on the earth. Smiling toward her toes, she already knows awakening is...

sometimes we run; sometimes we crawl.

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“We have nothing if not belief.” -Reepicheep, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (film) Mark walked in the room and found me watching an epic/adventure film....

loving: hard & free

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Toss it up to my naiveté or young idealism that this never dawned on me before having children, but let me just say, parenting is HARD....

goodbye grandma.

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Yesterday morning Kristen came over with all the ingredients to make your special spaghetti sauce. Who knew that yesterday, the day we chopped and talked...

APRIL in review (not for the faint of heart)

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In spite of the recent, occasional desires to wanderlust off the edge of the earth, I’m still here — at times in my pjs until...

25 promises of God

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Every year when I pull out the Christmas decor, I plan to actually put something in the doors of our advent calendar. The kids always...