Today is hard. Not six weeks ago I felt I had the world on a string. Was I too smug? Was I too sure? Had I bought into quick fixes and tricks? Probably and always. I am sinking. Away from myself, my family, my goals. But work is good. 🙂 No, really it is. TheContinue reading “Things fall apart”
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I wish I wrote songs
“I wanted to be a writer, that’s all. I wanted to write about it all. Everything that happens in a moment. The way the flowers looked when you carried them in your arms. This towel, how it smells, how it feels, this thread. All our feelings, yours and mine. The history of it, who we onceContinue reading “I wish I wrote songs”
Flowers in the snow
We have gone to Colorado, specifically Estes Park, 3 years in a row now. It feels like our place, our vacation. Hopefully the kids will feel that way too as they get older and remember summers. One of my favorite parts of the vacation is going up the mountain from warm air to cold air.Continue reading “Flowers in the snow”
deadlifts and dermabrasion
Small joys can amount to a happy life… the feel of good deadlifts with real weight coworkers that make work joy a challenging and rewarding job a squeaky clean face finding my voice in situations where it was once lost having experience to share finding other humans who will expose their soft spots an adorableContinue reading “deadlifts and dermabrasion”
Vacation
Hello… I am short on words today, probably because I was too free with words in my last post. Yesterday I showed my soul, today I am going to show my camera roll. A sampling of pictures from our vacation… the aerial tram, hiking Lily Lake (and ignoring the admonition that no pets were allowed),Continue reading “Vacation”
Gone
Driving up the mountain from Boulder to Estes Park. Jeff Tweedy is serenading me. I see a plane push up into the air making a fast vertical line of smoke. Just as quickly, the plane dives, creates another line of smoke as it plummets to the ground and then pulls up right before crashing intoContinue reading “Gone”
pneumonia and baby quilts
A bit of a ditch on the road of life the last couple of weeks. I was hospitalized with pneumonia and a tummy infection and crud and stuff. Prior to spending a night in the hospital, my longest and worst night was an overnight train ride from the sticks of Romania to the capital. PeeContinue reading “pneumonia and baby quilts”
Being Essential
I have thought hard about what I want to focus on in life. There is work and there is family. Those are no-brainers. And my health isn’t the best. I have some things I need to fix. Not want to fix, not should fix – need to fix. I know I will feel better ifContinue reading “Being Essential”
Essential
As long as I can remember, I have been enchanted by the idea of a Renaissance man – a person who has the time, the money, the fortitude to become an expert in science and art and literature. That is my compulsion. Here is what I want to accomplish in the next year… speak a foreignContinue reading “Essential”
This week’s baby quilt
My life continues to be full of baby quilts. I haven’t been quilting much lately, but the baby quilt to do list has been stacking up. The latest one is pictured below. It is an enlarged block from Farm Girl Vintage book. I ended up tying it to finish it, but didn’t get a pictureContinue reading “This week’s baby quilt”
