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Tag Archives: love
Living All The Way
“This is my living faith, an active faith, a faith of verbs: to question, explore, experiment, experience, walk, run, dance, play, eat, love, learn, dare, taste, touch, smell, listen, speak, write, read, draw, provoke, emote, scream, sin, repent, cry, kneel, … Continue reading
Brody 2008 – 2013
I am bereft. I cannot possibly write about it now. Maybe later. Just know he was a very small dog with a huge personality and lived his life living with joy until the very end. He taught me many lessons while … Continue reading
Posted in Animals I Love, Dogs, family, Friendships, Gratefulness, The Journey, Uncategorized
Tagged Angels, joy, laughter, loss, love, Time-out
28 Comments
Compassion And Being Enough
During the last seven years of my mother’s life, I was her caretaker. Except for the last five months of her life, she lived in my home with me and my husband, Bill. It was a hard time for all … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Caring for an aging parent, Compassion, family, Fear, Kindness, Memoir, Navigating Through Life, Quotes, Wise Words
Tagged Aging, failure, forgetting, Guilt, loss, love, Narcissism, Oriah Mountain Dreamer, Pain, Relationships, responsibility
2 Comments
Gift Of The Magi
My annual Christmas doldrums stayed away until the week before the big day. They slowly made their way into those early mornings hours when I worry myself awake. They like to sit on my chest, heavy and soggy with tears, … Continue reading
Posted in Being Creative, Childhood, Christmas, family, Gratefulness, Kindness, Matters of the Spirit, Memoir, Travels
Tagged Anxiety, Feeding the Soul, joy, loss, love
6 Comments
Tolerance and Generosity
Standing on what seemed like an endless line Tuesday afternoon at Wholefoods, I noticed my attitude beginning to slip and slide down a peg or two. I was impatient, judging what the person in front of me for buying foods … Continue reading
Posted in Childhood, Christmas, family, Healthy Living, Memoir, Mental Health, Navigating Through Life, Thanksgiving
Tagged Charles Dickens, Dysfunction, History, love, Money, Moving Forward, Shame, Sorrow, The Christmas Carol
10 Comments
Living Simply
I thought yesterday was October first and here I am preparing for Thanksgiving. Why do I feel like I’m living in a time capsule that moves forward at a gazillion miles an hour? As a little kid, I felt time … Continue reading
Posted in Animals I Love, Childhood, Dreams, family, Gratefulness, Matters of the Spirit, Music, Navigating Through Life, Thanksgiving, The Garden, The Seasons
Tagged Aging, Feeding the Soul, Food, joy, love, snow
6 Comments
Parenting And The Unfairness Of Life
I will be turning seventy years old next week, and one of the lessons I’ve learned over the years is that being a parent doesn’t end when your child walks out the door, goes to college, and then gets married. … Continue reading
Posted in Childhood, family, Fear, Life, love, Navigating Through Life
Tagged Aging, breast cancer, children, Hurricane Sandy, letting go, loss, love, parenting
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Letting Go
Things Change. One minute the sun is shining, the next it’s raining cats and dogs. I might be really sad at noon, and then find myself happy and laughing hysterically by four o’clock. When I have a day that makes … Continue reading
Posted in Animals I Love, family, Gratefulness, Healthy Living, Navigating Through Life
Tagged Aging, Food, Ghosts, Gluten Free, loss, love, Relationships
2 Comments
Home
“Home is not where you have to go but where you want to go; nor is it a place where you are sullenly admitted, but rather where you are welcomed – by the people, the walls, the tiles on the … Continue reading
Posted in Childhood, family, Life, The Sea, Travels, Vermont
Tagged Anxiety, Brockamour Manor, Canada, Home, love, New York City, Niagara-On-The-Lake, The Beach, The George Bernard Shaw Festival
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Another New Year
It’s been busy around C’ville this past week. While the public schools opened their doors over a week and a half ago, last weekend, brought the University students back to town. Traffic is crazy and from now on, Fridays and … Continue reading
Posted in Life, love, Mental Health, Navigating Through Life, War
Tagged Hatred, love, Politics, trust, Voting, Wolves
6 Comments