Category Archives: Healing
LOSING IT
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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 [...]
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OKAY
Just in case anyone needs to hear it. xo
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UNFINISHED
The painting that hangs in our living room, above the mail and the keys, is an unfinished watercolor that I found rolled up and buried deep in the basement of an estate sale. It had no frame and no name. It cost me about 25 cents. There were other paintings and sketches in the pile [...]
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MERCY
Wow, what a week. On Monday, I was overwhelmed by the personal stories of the world crashing in on so many fellow Americans—along with the wind and waves and fire and Hurricane Sandy. Americans who, days earlier, had been walking through their everyday ordinary, plain-jane lives, never suspecting the great losses that were just around the corner. Because we never do.
FALLING
It was not an ordinary day.
But I'm thinking it's probably all pretty normal for a season of transition. And I happen to know that shaky places like this can lead to stronger ones. Seriously, like boot camp.
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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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DAY ONE: RHINO REMOVAL
Is it weird to have your therapist tell you that you’re exhibiting signs of depression and to feel… relieved? Maybe. Or maybe it’s just truly a relief to hear that some of those frustrating things that have been creeping in lately - the tiredness the foggy brain the trudging-through-mud feeling the diminished interest in doing [...]
HEARTS