Is it more important to feel SAFE or to feel LOVED? This question was posed to me a few days ago and it has since haunted me. I don’t have a particularly admirable track record with relationships, I’m not in one at the moment, and I’m circling back around to wishing for that to change but, of [...]
Family
I’ve just spent a week in Boston to help out my newly pregnant, severely nauseous, and head-cold-suffering sister-in-law keep tabs on my adorable, brilliant and exuberant 2-1/2 year old niece while my brother was out of town. It has been one of the most delightful, simple and exhausting weeks of my life. Having spent my [...]
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Open Up
Whether or not you get into the chocolate hearts, red roses or Hallmark moments today, take a moment to open the gates of your heart just a little bit wider. Smile at a stranger. Say I love you to at least one person, and mean it. Write down five things you love about yourself. And [...]
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Making an Outline
It seems this is the week I’m consistently inspired by others’ blogs. Today’s ramblings are all Doniree’s fault. She’s gotten me thinking about how “I got so independent that I forgot how to let someone else in,” to quote her firecracker wisdom. It’s entirely true. I have over twenty years of independence, very little of [...]
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Ready or Not
“I wish I loved anything enough to stay put,” writes Birdykins in yesterday’s beautiful post. I freeze in recognition. I understand the need to be mobile and free. To fly. To run. To flee. From them. From you. From me. Of course, I read “anything” as… ANYONE. But the statement doesn’t tell the whole story, [...]
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