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Living Fully with Obscurity
The Lovers II, 1928 by Rene Magritte The New Year is accompanied by many emotions and actions – excitement and apprehension for what is to come, reflection and nostalgia for what has passed, and the good old setting of resolutions. Resolutions are funny – they both are inspiring and damning all in one. We’ve all…
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Life of conviction or a convict life?
I’ve been inspired these last days from spending time with friends who live with conviction. They practice what they preach and preach what they practice. Their habits of living align with their principles and beliefs. They are honest, have integrity, and admit their “failings” while simultaneously working on them. Their lives are structured – because…
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Six Things I’m Loving This Week
Thing 1 Living Downtown I recently moved into an apartment in the “heart” of my childhood home. It’s been pretty magical so far even though as I was moving I went through a major episode of rethinking the decision. The town is going through a revitalization, yes, but it’s still on the mend and sometimes…
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Six Things I’m Loving This Week: Flower Edition
I recently filled a cart with flowers at Trader Joe’s for an event. Literally everyone who saw the cart walked away smiling. It reminded me that often the most superfluous things in life bring the most joy. Thing 1 A cart full of flowers Thing 2 Ocotillo in Joshua Tree National Park This isn’t my…
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It’s important how you cut an onion and other life lessons
The other day, I was cooking with a friend and his children: he stopped his 11 yo son just in time before he hacked away at the onion. “It’s important how you chop the onion – it will totally change the salsa.” When it comes to onions, I am a strong ambassador of the properly…
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Six Things I’m Loving This Week
Ooooh yikes…it’s been a while since I’ve written. Without further ado… Thing 1 The ability to start over A few things this week (like sitting down to write this post) have reminded me of the gift we have to start over no matter how bad previous failure. This week I recommited to my doctor prescribed…
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Six Things I’m Loving This Week
I’ve decided to write “Six Things Things I’m Loving This Week” every week and then just one, so-called, feature post once a month. That will hopefully help me to create better content for that one post as well as free up time to work on other projects I’m trying to get going. Today typos come…
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Six Things I’m Loving This Week
I’m currently in the passenger seat as my sister and I drive back from a fantastic week exploring Chicago and spending time with great people. Going to bang this thing out before I get too carsick. (edit: in the end I did get carsick so I’m finishing this from home two days later.) Thing 1…
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Six Things I’m Loving This Week
It’s been a crazy couple of weeks. My 100 year old grandmother died two weeks ago and preparations and celebration of her life has consumed most of the time since then. There were hundreds of people at her funeral. There was a wide range of people who showed up some flying in from around the…
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Life Soundtracks
In former years, my life revloved around music. I played piano training in classical and competing and performed in Irish and Cape Breton Folk music. The experiences gathered along that path have been influential to this day. I was never very good at sight reading but had a natural talent for playing by ear. It’s…