From the category archives:

counting days

Learn how to breathe and when you think you are stronger, take more time. … Be patient with your heart. ~Tori Elfstrom Seven years ago I learned how to breathe {again}. I took time. I was patient with my heart; it was being remodeled … walls which had created special places of respite, for the [...]

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This week’s beginning elements … {brainstorming + elements}

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    {3-D cards don’t scan clearly; but hold so much creativity!} {my collection of elements from this week} makeshift card {couldn’t put my hands on my deck of playing cards; used the packaging from my granddaughter’s crayons} {folded notes included in this week’s card collage} {keywords for this week also included: decide and closure} [...]

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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, [...]

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{cloudy//dark before dawn} We don’t see things as they are, we see things as we are. ~Anais Nin Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody. ~Mark Twain {bits of paper//a handmade butterfly~a gift from someone who reminded me we all have the capacity to fly} The ability [...]

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{complicated//darkened} Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift. ~Mary Oliver {we cannot change her//that was true//adamant} and there was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own, that kept you company as you strode deeper and deeper [...]

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But all that I know is I’m breathing. All I can do is keep breathing. All we can do is keep breathing now. ~Ingrid Michaelson breathe/brēT͟H/ Verb: Take air into the lungs and then expel it, esp. as a regular physiological process; when hampered by muscle-skeletal restrictions can create indescribable panic + anxiety Be or [...]

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Love is the ability + willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you. ~Wayne Dyer During the month of December — as part of my decision to reflect and celebrate my {one wild and precious} life — I will choose a [...]

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{doubts are like morning shadows … they disappear in time} #morningwalk You are as important to your health as it is to you. ~Terri Guillemets   Yoga {outside} is a practice for my spirit, mind and body. {ideas for a morning sequence} Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease. ~Hippocrates   Country [...]

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Erica {an amazing ♥ friend and artist} inspires me to consider the moments within my day. And she has a new series, on Fridays. An open invitation to share bits and pieces of beauty from your week … It inspired to begin posting my own “Friday Five” … We love the way we live. I [...]

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