Category: Gratitude
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Keeping Promises
In the fall of my final year of college I learned of a study abroad program that my college was offering. The first months of the semester would be spent in England and that was to be followed by two weeks in Paris and a week in Glasgow. I got very excited about the prospect…
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Reclaiming Ourselves
I’ve been doing some reading, and taking some workshops, on the chakra system. The chakras date back to the Vedas in around 1000 BCE and refer to a system of energy, disks of energy that connect up through your body. These seven key energy centers begin around your tailbone and move up at specific points…
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To Sleep?
I often say, flippantly, that “sleep is over-rated.” Of course, that is far from the truth and far from my truth. Sleep matters in all aspects of our being—mentally, physically and spiritually. It is just that, for some of us at least, sleep is hard to come by. I have never been much of a…
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All Things
So many of us, myself totally included, feel a need to be all things to all people, all of the time. I say that without judgment or emotion, as just an observation on how I operate. Maybe it is socialization, growing up in an era where we were taught, especially as women, that we could…
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Too Quiet
We’ve had two plus packed weeks. We had a week’s vacation with dear friends and were home for less than 24 hours before our youngest, his wife and their 16-month-old arrived for an eight day stay. It’s been busy and a bit chaotic and a juggling act with both of us working this week—but these…
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“Vi-cation”
When my oldest son was a toddler, he was enchanted both by commercials for sugary cereals and by the rare times he had a taste of these longed for items at a friend’s house. They were strictly on the forbidden list in our house, one of those foods that those of us who used “Feed…
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Making U Turns
In the 25 plus years since my husband and I have been together, we have logged hundreds of thousands of miles in cars. With seven kids in scattered places, with friends and family across the country, we’ve driven to everything from Ultimate Frisbee tournaments to new baby visits to just getting a weekend away by…
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My Dad and Barbie
Unless you are living on a deserted island, you can’t miss the fact that the “Barbie” movie has just opened. In all honesty, I haven’t given Barbie a lot of thought in recent years. Yes, I remember my Barbies well and I have bought some for family children as permitted (not all moms allowed but…
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Advocating
It seems to me that, right now, we live in a world in which we are constantly having to advocate for ourselves and others, just to get things done. It used to be, at least in my memory, that if you entrusted someone to do or produce or create something, they just about always did…
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Breaking Eggs
So often, we go through life making choices and decisions, acting and reacting automatically. We don’t stop to think about why we do what we do or where it comes from. We are who we are and this is what is natural to us and for us. We may not see it as relevant to…
With a Full Heart 