Archive for June, 2007

a toast to love + marriage

Today I celebrate the life I have created with the man I married. Over the years, we have grown up, grown apart, grown back together again. Through the ups and downs, we have learned much about this union as husband and wife; we’ve learned compromise, sacrifice, acceptance. We have had to sift through our myriad […]

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The butterfly counts
not months but moments,
and has time enough.Rabindranath Tagore

I don’t usually like to complicate birthdays, but for some reason my emotions today were much like the ebb and flow of the sea. One minute I’m laughing at the inexplicable good fortune I have in my life, the multitude of blessings that fill my heart […]

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By all means use sometimes to be alone.
Salute thyself; see what thy soul doth wear. George Herbert

7:00 a.m. My day of refraining from negativity starts like this: I wake to a quiet, empty house. Big J is at work and the little ones are at grandma’s. Ah, yes, I revel in the silence. I take […]

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So after hearing how spiritual guru Deepak Chopra encourages his family to avoid The Three C’s, I thought I would give it a try. (No, don’t worry, I’m not talking about coffee, carbs and chocolate… ha, no way I would even think about such nonsense!) I am going to challenge myself to go one […]

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People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong…Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?Thich Nhat Hanh

♥ Seeds sprouting. Veggies growing. Flowers blooming.
♥ 20GB of precious, irreplaceable digital photos (that’s a lot of photos, folks) stored on an ancient dinosaur of a machine that […]

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