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Monday Musings & Motivations – Part Sixty-One – Holidays
I have something to admit. I’ve not been especially holiday happy for the past few years. I find myself dreading the holiday season and I didn’t used to be that way. I once welcomed holidays, decorated, watched holiday movies—all that stuff that families do during the holiday season. I’m not going to go into a … Continue reading
Monday Musings & Motivations – Part Fifty-Nine – Finding My Zen
Due to Monday being a holiday and as a follow-up to my wildly popular (not) Unraveling My Zen post, I thought I’d post my Monday Musings today. It’s about ways in which I try to find, capture, and hold on to my elusive Zen. Zen is kind of like Wi-Fi. You know it’s there but … Continue reading
Monday Musings and Motivations – Part Fifty-Seven – Grace
As I’m valiantly trying to get back into the rhythm of regular blogging, I thought I’d give the open, ruffle and point method a shot for inspiration. I have The Random House Thesaurus College Edition on my bookshelf. Archaic, huh? I know, Google can give me a thesaurus anytime I want. But since, I’ve carted … Continue reading
Then Sometimes, With Great Luck, (We) Will Succeed
As one year becomes another, I think about new beginnings. It’s odd, the feelings we have about one year ending and the other beginning, isn’t it? It’s that joyful/sad emotion— melancholy mixed with hope—it pulls at us. The New Year is a kind of permission for all of us to let go of any and … Continue reading
It Came Upon a Midnight Clear….
It’s one of those songs that makes your heart ache a little, in a good way, during this time of year. Epiphanies come when our minds are clear. For me, they’ve often been before a turning point in my life or during sheer exhaustion—in the middle of a before and after kind of event. You … Continue reading
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