Category Archives: Heart Things

HEARTS

By Julie | Published: May 15, 2013
They pound. They melt. They swell. They burst. They break. They bleed. They keep your breath coming while simultaneously also taking it away. Here’s to hearts. Those blossoming. Those fading. Those coming back to life. xo   __ See my bleeding hearts of yesteryear: 2012 2011 2010   __ Check out my stop-the-bleeding song that’s playing [...]
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LOSING IT

By Julie | Published: April 20, 2013
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LOVE

By Julie | Published: February 14, 2013
It happens. It does. In so many, many different ways. And not always the ways we think it will or expect it to or demand it to or imagine it will. In fact, almost never in those ways. But always, in one form or another it has the potential to happen. Because we are surrounded [...]
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DINNER PARTY

By Julie | Published: February 5, 2013
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 [...]
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WRITING IT DOWN

By Julie | Published: January 24, 2013
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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PICK ONE?

By Julie | Published: January 8, 2013
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 [...]
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GRACE, ALL AROUND

By Julie | Published: January 3, 2013
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

By Julie | Published: December 12, 2012
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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UNCLEAR

By Julie | Published: December 2, 2012
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 [...]
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OKAY

By Julie | Published: November 25, 2012
Just in case anyone needs to hear it. xo
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