Category Archives: Wording
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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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, Wise Things Tagged Coincidence?, Feelings, Rhino 2 Comments
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 [...]
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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, Raving, Thanking, Thinking 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 [...]
THANKFUL
for the dinged up floor in our living room because it means we have a living room and a floor and a roof to match and shoes that scrape against the wood and feet to wear them and legs to carry them and lives that take us in and out and back and forth and [...]
Also posted in Celebrating, Heart Things, House Things, Inspiring, Messy Things, Thanking, Wise Things Tagged floors, House Things, Thanksgiving 1 Comment
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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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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HEARTS