Every year my extended family has a party where our cousins gather for a little post-holiday cheer. Part of the festivities include a White Elephant gift exchange for the adults. Most of us bring great gifts but inevitably someone brings the gift-to-be-avoided and most of the exchange efforts involve ditching that gift. Last year we […]
We Need To Be Gentle With Each Other
We need to be gentle with each other right now. This isn’t about walking on egg shells around others. Its about holding each other’s souls with compassion. I was at the doctors office with one of my kids the other day. The woman checking out in front of me was working out a payment plan […]
Holy Hannah!
Holy Hannah this has been a roller coaster of a week. We sold our minivan. Saying good bye is hard. That minivan hosted A LOT of our collective history as a family. I’m not one to get sentimental about objects but this van is woven into the fiber of my strongest memories over the last […]
The results of gratitude
Here in the states it is Thanksgiving, a holiday marked by a focus on gratitude. (There is also a huge focus on food but we don’t need to talk about that.) As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago this year has taught me a lot. Within those lessons has emerged a clarity of how […]
Daisy Chronicles: Finding My Chemo Buddies
In May 2017 I began finding daisies sprinkled throughout our property, daisies we did not plant. They were my mom’s favorite flower. I think she left them for me to remind me of the journey we took together, especially the lessons learned through her cancer and death. I’m sharing them now in the posts labeled […]
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