Sometimes I’ll be going about my day, just my normal everyday activities of teaching, writing, cleaning, cooking, when all at once my breath catches and I see Heaven shining down on my kitchen. Nothing out of the ordinary is happening, but all of a sudden it’s like someone flushed out my eyeballs because I can so clearly see a moment I want to remember. Last night it was Leila twirling in her favorite…
Have you ever noticed how much harder it is to be awesome when you’re trying to be someone else? My friends and I have been talking about fear and weakness lately. About what happens when we focus on our weaknesses, when we think about all the ways we don’t measure up to others, when we compare highlight reels. What happens is we start missing out. We miss out on our…
I’ve never been one to pay much attention to my nails. I don’t own a curling iron either. I know, I’m barely a female. Anyways, I wanted to make some kind of an effort with my nails, but I don’t want to pay for manicures, I hate wearing fake nails, and I can’t stand to keep polish on after there has been even the tiniest chip. That’s why I’m loving…
{Opening Day by Thrive Photography} Worth Reading: Doing Less, Being More – Brian Gardner All I know how to do is read – The Wild Love Want to be more creative? Stop doing this. – Ally Vesterfelt Why is good photography expensive? – Jon Acuff How to get your kids to try new foods (and like it!) – Teach Mama Things that fired me up this week: Mets Player…
We are finally (slowly) on the mend around here. The light has come back into Joe’s eyes, and so far both kids are fever-free today (fingers crossed). With our quarantine in full effect I had more time than usual to read and waste time on the interwebs this week. Here are some things I found worth sharing. Inspiration: That’s why we’re all different! – Relentless Journey Cultivating (the friends in)…
I awoke this morning to a gentle whisper. Not an audible one, but a quiet nudging of the spirit. My body was asking me, in the nicest way possible, to get moving. See, I haven’t been exercising lately. As a health professional, that is a bit hard to admit, but there it is. I have plenty of good reasons (read: excuses) for my recent inactivity. My schedule is crazy. …
When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I…