You might know that I walk most days of the week, and I try to take a different route each time to keep things interesting for me and the dogs. Today, we enjoyed a walk around the Reservoir on a beautiful fall morning, the temperature warm in the sun and cool in the shade, dappled … Continue reading Yes, I’m Smiling at You!
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We need goals to get to finally moments.
We all want those “finally” moments: Finally, I’ve saved enough money to take that trip.Finally, I’ve lost the unwanted weight.Finally, I earned that raise.Finally, finally, finally, but how do we get there? Many of us either dream too big, too fast or we waffle in trying to determine the goal worth reaching for. I have … Continue reading We need goals to get to finally moments.
The Lupine Lady
The lupines are beginning to bloom. I noticed one flower a week ago. Today that one flower had become a patch of purple. “Spring has sprung” is fun to say but “spring is springing” more accurately describes the situation, as more and more plants will push forth, spring up, and unfurl their beauty. As I … Continue reading The Lupine Lady
Why Smile?
To make eye contact and smile is a kind of prayer, and it changes you. - Anne Lamott Lamott’s quote about the power of smiling has been on my mind most mornings when I walk my dogs past others in our neighborhood: the gaggle of women, the power pairs, the man who limps alongside his … Continue reading Why Smile?
New Shoes
At one point, I couldn’t imagine wearing out two-plus pairs of shoes per year. Now each day begins with pavement pounding. My junior high mile run time was slower than my current walking mile time. I loved school and books and writing, but hated PE. I snail-crawled my way through the mile “run,” followed by … Continue reading New Shoes
5 Healthy Habits for 2021
Last year I set a goal to drink more water. I wobbled for a while before the habit took hold. Initially, my skinny water bottle needed to be filled 4 times each day to meet my goal and I kept losing track - was I on bottle #3 or #4? Eventually, I recognized the bottle … Continue reading 5 Healthy Habits for 2021
Grief Balms: Snow Globes & Beauty Emergencies
Grief seems to be at every corner this year. Many of us have shared occasions for grief, such as illness and death, the loss of normalcy, shuttered shops and closed schools, dwindling dollars in our bank accounts, isolation and loneliness. Most of us also have personal reasons for grief. For two weeks I haven’t left … Continue reading Grief Balms: Snow Globes & Beauty Emergencies
Be Where You Are
For most of the last eighteen years, our family has spent one week each summer vacationing in Pacific Grove, California, a NorCal coastal town nestled between Monterey and Carmel. Many years before our annual vacations began, while we were dating and newly married, Guy and I would drive from his childhood home in Santa Cruz … Continue reading Be Where You Are
Thankful Thursday – Another Week
I’ve been snapping pictures of moments that make me feel grateful to live this life, in this place, with these people…
Quieting Our Souls: Solitude
Born and raised in SoCal, most of my life has been lived within 20 minutes of the coast. Until now, when the coast is at best 30 minutes away and at worst, an hour+. I have noticed lately an intense craving to be near the water. The local reservoirs, and the two or three hikes … Continue reading Quieting Our Souls: Solitude