Category Archives: Wise Things
GUESS WHAT I FOUND
It's all enough to make this first-born, type-A, straight-A, single-momming, self-employed girl want to hole up, buckle down and take care of things. Make things better. Fix things. Soothe things. Prevent things. Get things done. Check things off the list. All while clenching her fists and holding her breath until maybe, someday, the list will be a little less long and the needs a little lighter.
Also posted in Everyday Things, Finding, Hard Things, Healthy Things, Junking, Noticing, Single-Momming Tagged Breaks, Breathing, Busy, Hunt & Gather, life, Refreshing, SELF-CARE 4 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!
LUMPY
It’s the word a certain daughter in my house may or may not have said to me last night. “I feel lumpy.” I think that sentence was immediately followed by something like, “Ugh.” And a lifeless flop onto the bed. Which is weird. Because I honestly don’t think I’ve ever said that sentence to her. [...]
Also posted in Chuckling, Everyday Things, Noticing, Parenting, Random Things, Wording Tagged Coincidence?, Feelings, Rhino 2 Comments
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, Raving Tagged chili, Dinner, Emily, friends, sharing 2 Comments
PICK ONE?
Today I was talking to someone I love about how maybe just maybe we all have a bit more in common than we think. Maybe if we paid a little less attention to all those signs and labels Maybe if we were just a little less black and white We’d find ourselves slightly less turned [...]
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 [...]
OKAY
Just in case anyone needs to hear it. xo
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LOSING IT