• Everything Else - Grow - Harvest

    The Changing Seasons – October in Review

    October marks, for me, the official beginning of Fall. The slide from warm days and comfortable evenings quickly gives way to bipolar weather patterns (hot, toasty days followed by very cold nights…torrential downpours with hail and flooding, followed by crispy dry weeks on end) and, inevitably, the first fire of…

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    Today…

    Today started well before dawn with me jolting awake to the sound of Ember screaming downstairs. Apparently I’d missed her 2am wake up call which brought her and Kim downstairs in the middle of the night, though her screams at 4:00 brought me out of the Dream World with a…

  • Everything Else - Grow

    And so it begins…

    I may not be ready, but I don’t have a choice. Temperatures are set to dip drastically for the next few days and nights and I don’t quite think my PJs and sweatshirts are going to cut it anymore for keeping me warm during the morning chores. Oh well, there are…

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    Sky Blanket Update #2

      339 days of watching the skies and marking the weather… 26 more to go. Which sounds totally wonderful until I remember that I actually have 88 days left to crochet because as of right now, I am 62 days behind. Whoa! But that also means that I have already…

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    NaBloPoMo

    Oh boy… I’ve really gone off the deep end now. See, I’ve been toying with the idea of trying to post to this space consistently…like every.single.day consistent…but haven’t made the commitment to myself (or to you), out of pure fear… And, honestly, busy-ness… All.the.time busy-ness! See, I don’t like failure,…

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    Through the Fog

    With so many things happening all at once… Because there’s always something to do or some things to multi-task or something to think about doing or plan for doing or reflect on doing… I never quite feel able to just be present in the moment anymore. So then, I wonder, how might…

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    365 Days of Gratitude

    “You simply will not be the same person two months from now after consciously giving thanks each day for the abundance that exists in your life. And you will have set in motion an ancient spiritual law: the more you have and are grateful for, the more will be given…