Category Archives: Wondering
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 [...]
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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.
SOMEWHERE
Life has been shifting around here lately. Roads opening up. Detours appearing. Adventures happening. Questions arising. I’m finding that navigating through this season is requiring a little extra focus, which means… I need to take a break from blogging. You may have noticed that I pretty much already have. I guess I’m just making it [...]
EVERY BODY
Today I’ve been thinking about bodies. How we all have one, but none of us have the same one. And how some bodies can do so much more than others. I spent part of my afternoon sitting on a couch next to a body that five weeks ago was literally under the tire of a [...]
Also posted in Everyday Things, Random Things, Thinking, Wise Things Tagged body, pain, Trampoline 2 Comments
MEMORIAL DRIVE
My neighborhood is not like every other one in town. In my neighborhood, there is a beautiful parkway lined on either side by 568 perfectly spaced trees. Each tree is planted in honor of a fallen loved one. At the base of each tree is a bronze cross. On each cross is engraved the name [...]
ONE PRECIOUS HOUR
I’m having one of those moments right now where both kids are happily occupied and I can’t think of anything pressing that needs to be done right this minute and that hasn’t happened for quite some time and yet there are actually about a million things that need to be done but I suddenly can’t [...]
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LOSING IT