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  • February 7, 2021
    "leave footprints of love and kindness wherever you go" 
    The seasons of life: Week 6
    Theme: Love
    28 days
    There are only twenty-eight days in February, with an opportunity to zero our focus on love. Uncover the good, by sharing kindness. For the next 28 days I intend to document the following:
    Today I love...
    February 01 - Something oldFebruary 02 - Someone I spend time withFebruary 03 - Something I...

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  • January 31, 2021
    "Ah, kindness. What a simple way to tell another struggling soul that there is love to be found in this world.
    Theme: Love, life and learning
    Week: 5
    Throughout my life I have examined my place in this world, seeking a purpose that explains who I am and what path to follow. The pandemic dropped me into a phase of questioning, A deeper dive into who I am. Does my behavior derive from the order...

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  • January 24, 2021
    "Extremes are easy, find balance" 
    Week 4
    Theme: Balance
    The inevitable degree of change in our lives is endless, even when we think we have control; we learn what little power we have, and that can foster further trepidation of the unknown. However, when the fear that is hinged with change is removed, we can begin to appreciate change as one of God's greatest gifts. 
    The genius of change will...

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  • January 17, 2021
    Balance isn't fitting everything in. It's starting with what's important and letting the rest fall as it will ~Erica Layne
    Theme: Balance
    Week: 3
    During this season of quarantine, I finally recognized the difference between having goals and having time. Over the years there have been many goals I could never quite master, and I often justified not reaching them because of a lack of time. But...

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  • January 10, 2021
    Balance is the key to everything. What we do, think, say, eat, feel, they all require awareness and through this awareness we can grow. ~Koi Fresco
    Theme: Balance
    Week: 2
    In the early part of 2020 I started doing yoga and could not believe how much better my body felt. Before I started practicing, I could not remember a time when my right hip did not hurt. Once I decided to try yoga more consistently,...

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  • January 3, 2021
     "Balance means doing enough, not doing it all"
    Theme: Balance
    Week: 1
    During these frigid winter months, the last thing I want to do is head outdoors and run, the bitter cold, too many layers and a chill before you even walk outside are enough to say nope, not today. But somehow, I keep doing it. And with that, I began to notice how the power of my thoughts could help or hinder any plans.
    Our...

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  • January 1, 2021
    A new year and a new list of things to do. What is it about the turn of the calendar that sparks such a flurry of new beginnings? Goals and promises often broken before the months end as we fall back to our old habits.
    But with these goals, these dreams we reach out for, I have discovered change and it doesn't have to begin on the 1st of a month, year or of the week, I quit smoking January 7, 2003....

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  • December 7, 2020
    You were unsure which pain is worse –
    The shock of what happened or the ache for what never will.
    - Remembering Ryan 
    Since losing Ryan twenty-seven years ago, I can still recall, in great detail, the many fragments of my journey through grief. I was understandably a mess. So much so that my father asked our family doctor to prescribe me something mild, a pill to take the edge off from the...

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  • November 1, 2020
    The sounds of life
    It takes strength to make your way through grief, to grab hold of life and let it pull you forward ~Patti Davis
    The residue of disbelief still bubbles up when I drift to the last moments shared with my mother. Her death, another reminder of life’s brevity, provokes the lessons of grief. Memories become the guidepost of my life, and a balm to my sorrow. Creating space for contemplation...

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  • October 7, 2020
    Peace begins with a smile ~ Mother Teresa 
    Inspiring Women Series: Mother Teresa
    Mother Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu,  August 26, 1910 - September 5, 1997, honored in the Catholic Church as Saint Teresa of Calcutta, was an  Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary. She was born in Skopje, part of the Ottoman Empire. After living in Skopje for eighteen years, she moved to Ireland and...

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