Category Archives: Thinking
LOSING IT
Also posted in Growing, Hard Things, Healing, Heart Things, Noticing, Ranting, Wise Things, Wondering Tagged Grief, Hope, Loss 5 Comments
GOOD FRIDAY
Some days, life feels like one big black gnarly mess. When the things we care most desperately about the things we thought were most true and real go dark cave in spin out sink into the black abyss get nailed to a cross. Some days, it’s just harder to see the hope. Especially when this [...]
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I. CAN’T. TAKE. MUCH. MORE.
It is officially spring, and yet, here we sit. Locked in a world of ice and snow and frigid cold. Covered in frost..... Help!
Also posted in Dreaming, Everyday Things, Wise Things Tagged believe, Cold, Easter, Holy Week, Hope, patience, Spring, Waiting, winter 2 Comments
FAREWELL, DEAR ABBY
Last Friday, not far from where I live, Dear Abby breathed her last, leaving this earthly home for another. But her legacy, as they say, lives on. And, at R-house, it lives on here: On a simple pink couch that, we are told, once belonged to the advice queen herself – and now belongs to [...]
Also posted in Beautiful Things, Everyday Things, House Things, Messy Things, Remembering Tagged House Things, life, pink couch 1 Comment
CLEANING HOUSE
When you’ve had a week filled with vivid reminders about just how much of life you have absolutely no control over it can be therapeutic to find a place where you do have some control even if it means that after an hour or two on your knees you’ve only changed the color of three rows of kitchen tiles and you [...]
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GRACE, ALL AROUND
Wait. What day is it?? Isn’t it December twenty-something? Pardon? It’s January you say? But… But why does this calendar in my living room say… And why is that sparkly fake evergreen still here? Really? Wow. But I have four sheets of holiday stamps just waiting for those holiday envelopes to be addressed. You don’t [...]
Also posted in Chuckling, Growing, Heart Things, Inspiring, Wise Things, Wording Tagged Christmas, GRACE, new year 1 Comment
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, Raving, Thanking, Wording Tagged Amazing, dates, Numbers, twelve 1 Comment
UNCLEAR
This morning I stepped outside my door and found that the view from here is a little more murky than usual. Which, I’ll admit, can have a magical and enchanting quality to it until you find yourself hurtling down the road at the speed of an ever-changing life. Then, suddenly, what’s up ahead matters a [...]
REDO
Do you ever find yourself clicking command-z or undo or rewind a few times before you realize wait. this is real life. and not your computer? Yeah. Me neither. xo __ P.S. I am guest posting today at my good friend’s amazing blog. Check it out here. __ [photo taken at one of my favorite shops]
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OUTGROWING