Category Archives: Raving
THE SILVER LINING
When we Minnesotans flung wide our curtains this mid-spring morning, here is the sight that greeted our winter-weary selves: For, perhaps, the umpteen-thousandth time this April Now, if this had been a January morning, or even a March one, I would have had a much easier time soaking in the crisp, shimmering, truly stunning beauty [...]
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DINNER PARTY
At some point this weekend, there was talk of how sharing a meal [breaking bread] together is both exceptionally ordinary and beautifully sacred Not ordinary at all To raise a glass together To sit knee to knee or thigh to thigh together To experience hunger and then flavor and then fullness together It says something [...]
Also posted in Everyday Things, Fooding, Heart Things, Noticing, Wise Things Tagged chili, Dinner, Emily, friends, sharing 2 Comments
WRITING IT DOWN
Somewhere back toward the beginning of this blogging journey, I typed up a post about the specific kind of journal (and pen) that I was loving most at the time. Three years and six journals later, that opinion hasn’t changed. Although a lot of other things have. Particularly, the things filling those journals. Thank God. [...]
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BY THE DOZENS
If I began to tell you all the things that the number twelve means to me, and all the crazy, crazy, crazy stories I have around this number colliding with my life in just plain flat-out insane and lightning-bolt-from-heaven ways (CRAZY, I tell you), it would quickly turn into a book. And maybe, someday, it [...]
Also posted in Beautiful Things, Hard Things, Healing, Heart Things, Thanking, Thinking, Wording Tagged Amazing, dates, Numbers, twelve 1 Comment
AT THE LAKE
If you don’t live here, you might not realize that Minneapolis becomes a bit of a ghost town every weekend of the summer, when half the population heads to their lakeside getaways on Minnesota’s 10,000 or so pieces of paradise. But nothing compares to this week. This is the Superbowl of cabin going, when not only [...]
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SO SWEET
Way, way back when when I was a few feet shorter and a few years younger with buck teeth, pigtails and one teacher all day long, I had a friend who would choose a seat next to me every day in the big, noisy lunchroom and every day after I ate my peanut butter or [...]
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FRESH
Every week of every month of every year of my livelong life, I have waited for it. Watched for it. Longed for it. And every week of every month of every year it has done the same thing over and over. It has arrived. With all the possibility of a shiny new weekend and all the [...]
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ALL A-FLUTTER
For the past three days, every time I come in or out of R-house, I have had a friend waiting for me at the front door. This evening I stood on my front step and watched – in awe – as my butterfly launched into a Dancing with the Stars-worthy performance – fluttering over, around, [...]
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NEW
Tonight I got to meet the newest neighbors on our block. Two itsy bitsy bundles of (((((((((((((((((sweetness)))))))))))))))))) Welcome to this world, baby girls. xo by julie rybarczyk
IS THIS FOR REAL?