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1 august 2021
hello dear friends,on the first day of july, i wrote this haiku:write haiku every blessed day in july. one and thirty poems emergei wrote thirty-one (counting this one)i published twenty-sevenbecause...
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2 august 2021 :: dirty august
and this is how my mind worksi was thinking about the term dirty august i first heard it from another wildland fire wife - august is often long and dry and hot and filled with fire and fire assignments...
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4 august 2021
yesterday was an odd day. all i wrote in my journal was -- so. very. grey. today. -- and it was. grey. smoky skies. and also cloudy skies. also, life felt grey. and it was one of those days where...
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5 august 2021
wow. i don't know why i decided that trying to write a blog post every day in august was a good idea. but, i said i would. so here i am. writing. today i was so very tired. this morning i woke at...
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9 august 2021
well - this isn't going as i had planned - but that is par for the course in august. for tonight, you get one of my lists of ten. this is list ten. two hundred three. things i don't...
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11 august 2021
favorite things today:the sky was blue, blue, blue - with some pretty cloudsthat ben found a tiny pocket of cell service and called me. he also sent me a picture of their night opshugs, big hugs, from...
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18 august 2021
i was talking with an instagram friend (who is also a snail mail friend, who would be a real life friend if we didn’t live almost two thousand miles apart) and i had this really cool mental picture of...
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30 august 2021
usually i love facebook memories but sometimes they are a mix of happy and sadi signed on today, and this picture brought me right back into the cool night airfilled with the sounds of the baseball...
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31 august 2021
today maddie started her senior year of high school, and isaac started his junior year of high school .and i made them french toast and took a picture this morning.and because i love the comparison...
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.learning. 2 september 2021
there is a thing i am learning - if i want to share the things that resonate with me, if i want to have an impact for good, i need to share here, in my own space. i, at times, have used other’s...
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learning. 17 september 2021
children do not need us to shape them. they need us to respond to who they are. ~ naomi aldortyou do not have to make your children into wonderful people. you just have to remind them that they are...
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you've seen the pictures
you've seen the pictures i know you have the ones of black humans clothed in t-shirts and shorts, carrying children and a few belongings in plastic shopping bags the pictures of white men wearing...
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like a plant
really, i am like a plant (an often transplanted plant)i need plenty of sunshine,plenty of water,some storms to strengthen me,somewhere to put my roots down (even if i will be transplanted again) (i...
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so, about social media
let me tell you a little story. one day last week, i texted a verse to a handful of friends. just that. and the tiny replies i got encouraged me to think about sending another the next day. that...
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maybe he will calm the raging sea
the other night i pulled mary oliver's new and selected poems off my shelf. i was looking for a poem to send to a friend, and as i found the one i was looking for, this one caught my eye as...
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1 november 2021
november firstsitting in the living room at number six twelve, finding coziness on a cool fall eveningthinking about making some lists this monthnovember and a focus on gratitude seem to go hand in...
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2 november 2021
this month is full, full, fullbut a lot of the things are going to be very happy thingssome paid days off {for ben and me}some days off school {for madi and isaac}a choir concert {that madi will sing...
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9 november 2021
gratitudes today ::the cup of fresh, warm coffee my friend stacy brought me tonight when she picked me up for our city council meetinga friend who shares clothes sunshine on a day that i thought was...
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3 december 2021
it gets dark so early now. it is 3:30 pm and already dusk. granted, clouds did roll in this afternoon, but at 1:15, it was so sunny, and now, 3:30 and heading toward dark. we have another eighteen days...
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fullness of joy
you make known to me the path of life in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.sometimes, i go looking for the joy, seeking the right hand of the...
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