Saturday, June 18, 2016

I'll leave you with this...

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after many false starts and stops, and thinking I'll take a blog break - but then not, and instead just ignoring this space….I am truly ...
Sunday, April 17, 2016

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and i don't say this to elicit pity or throw shame or shade.  just sort of typing along with my head and heart, and hoping my words will...
Monday, March 28, 2016

not bad

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twice in a month - not bad.  i love the freedom i've given myself to come here when i want, rather than feeling like i should.   so. he...
Thursday, March 10, 2016

brave enough

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You go on by doing the best you can. You go on by being generous. You go on by being true. You go on by offering comfort to others who can...
Sunday, February 28, 2016

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In the past year or two, when all my safety nets dry-rotted or burned or were swiped out from under me, it became more clear that there are ...
Wednesday, February 17, 2016

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it seems i come here for comfort, or to work things out, or to share an amazing moment…but never to say "Eh - life is rolling along in ...
Monday, February 01, 2016

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some days you feel absolutely and irretrievably broken inside…your very Self is leaking out with the tears that stream down your face…there ...
Friday, January 29, 2016

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i don't read self-help books.  i don't read books that purport to tell me how to live my life better.  why? because they begin with ...
Thursday, January 28, 2016

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we are the walking wounded.  yet not. we bear the stripes of our Grief around our hearts.  we have chosen to lie back in the pool of Grief ...
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Saturday, January 23, 2016

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i have an exhausting list of things to accomplish…things i want to do, things i need to do, things i should do…i slept in a bit today, let H...
Thursday, January 14, 2016

PowerBall….Yesss!

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Did i mention I bought a Powerball ticket?  and that we also played at work?  did i mention that?  well, no matter - i didn't win.  but,...
Tuesday, January 12, 2016

Wait - what??

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Did I mention that I am wont to change my mind with the spin of a hat? Did I mention that sometimes I need this space like I need a companio...
Sunday, December 27, 2015

Ps

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There were some corrections that needed to be made in the last post, but blogger is being a spoiled brat. So you'll have to set your eye...

Percolation and rumination

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It's been 23 days since my last post. Yes.  An almost unheard of amount of time to be away, in the past 9 or so years. Some days brought...
Friday, December 04, 2015

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Wishing for the ease with which I moved through my days and nights and weeks and months...not having to force myself to go out and try somet...
Thursday, December 03, 2015

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‘Deep in the wintry parts of our minds we are hardy stock and we know there is no such thing as work-free transformation. We know that we wi...

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How are you? She asked. Mostly really good. Really good. Some days really bad. Mostly good, though. And you? We sat at the cafe in a book...
Saturday, November 28, 2015

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ok so maybe this will be a monthly space.  who knows. it appears i have deeply disappointed someone though.  someone who, unbeknownst to me...
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Saturday, November 14, 2015

a rebuilding

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a conversation with a wise woman:   we are, each of us, built for our purpose - built physically, mentally, endurance-wise, personality trai...
Friday, November 06, 2015

my heart belongs

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I belong in the woods.  i belong where wildness can be tamed…but just.  i belong where make do and handmade and hand built all meet.  i belo...
Thursday, November 05, 2015

dream on

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yes, it's true I have a thing for Steven Tyler.  Sorry. That may spin your head.  But this song - whether or not Steven & I had an...
Wednesday, November 04, 2015

the space between

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I love my job.  but if that's all life was about, i'd slit my own wrists.  i love my house - the tending and mending and painting an...
Sunday, November 01, 2015

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I've been trying for days weeks to come by here, but blogger has kept me out.  Then tonight, just as I was about to abandon hope, the do...
Saturday, October 10, 2015

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And then one day....you stop. Suddenly you realize how electronics have pushed out flesh & blood...how that little dog looks up at you w...
Wednesday, October 07, 2015

in the woods. home.

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yesterday, i meant to write this. yesterday, as Henry and I took our early morning walk, an owl whooshed in front of us and continued at war...
Saturday, September 26, 2015

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am feeling disconnected.  itchy and jumpy in my own skin.  finding myself wandering the house wondering what the heck i was planning to do w...
Friday, September 25, 2015

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totally underestimated the sadness of an email that begins: We have your signed divorce papers back from the Court.
Monday, September 21, 2015

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to try to condense the past week into one post would be a disservice.  so here are a few random tidbits.  It was another Full Circle thing…i...
Saturday, September 12, 2015

don't believe it!

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Reports that I've abandoned this space are simply not true.  Well, actually, there haven't been any such reports, but I bet you susp...
Saturday, August 29, 2015

Too many dots

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on my phone calendar, when I add an event, it makes a dot on that day. I need only to tap that day's square to see what the dot represen...
Friday, August 21, 2015

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a mid-morning walk with Henry through my woods… there is a certain area that just smells so good - so earthy and woodsy…i stop every ti...
Sunday, August 16, 2015

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i have been busy like a honeybee in a hive…my sister-in-law is coming to stay for a bit, and that meant flipping the house,,,moving from my ...