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it’s not the one who plants or the one who waters
This year I have taken notice of the many metaphors with plants and growth. I have written about my own Failure to Thrive and the important repotting process. I have written about how you can have All the Right Moves, and sometimes the process ends up being more important that the product. I have written about how Continue reading
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do over in progress
I’m not sure if you’ve heard, but 2015 is the year of Putting My Shoes Under the Bed. March is in full swing and I couldn’t be more thrilled. I recently finished reading a book about seven important factors to regaining good health. This includes a normal body weight, and all of our body systems Continue reading
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we belong to you and me
Over the weekend I was loading up several large bags of clothes to take to Goodwill and came to a stack of picture frames in our hall closet. One thing I am learning is that photographs pressed to glass don’t fair so well in hot moving trucks. I’ve stored several frames that had some snapshots Continue reading
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sharing our stories
“It’s a living book, this life: it folds out in a million settings, cast with a billion beautiful characters…” “And so my prayer is that your story will have involved some leaving and some coming home, some summer and some winter, some roses blooming out like children in a play. My hope is your story Continue reading
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failure to thrive
I have a plant that is stressing me out. One of my goals for this year was to grow some stuff. We are working toward a family garden all the way from seed to plate. In addition to that, I want to learn the art of keeping a few houseplants alive. I know this is Continue reading
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for when you don’t feel like dancing…
Back when I was in college in the late 1990s (ahem, has it been that long?!?) my roommates and I choreographed and put on a wonderful Christmas dance to Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You…” It was a dance in four parts and my friends Jamie, Jennifer and I were the steady Continue reading
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