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Where I Don’t Belong
In today’s installment of what’s beautiful, I only first found what was broken, until I caught a fleeting glimpse of what laid...
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Red Lipstick and the Quest For Perfection
“You awake? :)))” “Yes!” “Do you have the energy for me to unload some of my crazy on you? :)))” “Yes!” And so our text exchange began,...
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Fragile
In a different life, I took scalpel to skin, cut through fibrous layers of muscle and fascia to the very deepest core of our biology, ...
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The Hustle
For the most part, I have always considered it a good thing to “hustle.” The very word conjures up images of burning the midnight lamp,...
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Soaring
We could wait for a thousand days and nights, a lifetime really, to be given the green light. The sign that we are good enough to...
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The Power of Small
I recently took a six week mindfulness course with the wonderful Cayce Howe. He started and ended the course with two pearls of wisdom...
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The Love Of A Child
Last week, I returned home from work to find my kids excitedly scurrying around the kitchen. On the counter lay cupcakes in a flower...
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The Big 4-0: Twelve Things I (sort of) Know For Sure
With my birthday rapidly approaching, I set out to write a post about “What I Know For Sure” after forty revolutions around the sun. And...
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Living Slow, Thinking Fast
Today was a day of living slow yet thinking fast, all of which is to say that life unfolded only in my head with little to no direct...
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All The Questions
Sometimes when the loudness around us has settled into a quiet lull, let’s ask each other all the questions that pulse deep within....
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Now
Somewhere between dreaming big and living in small, ordinary moments, I am lost without a compass. There are fleeting thoughts of ...
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Landscape
The landscape of my body holds stories that will never be told, perhaps even words that I have never known– ancient dictionaries...
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There Is Time
Within us echoes the quiet wail, “There is no time, There is no time.” Time is lost in the striving to fill empty spaces that can...
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A True Story
There once was a true story of a middle aged woman (when did that happen?) who often didn’t know who she was. She wanted to be able to...
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Magic
A life lived in poetry is 10:08 pm on Monday night with my journal and pen and a restless, racing mind over tired shoulders that carry...