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Embracing Grace: My Guide to the Slice of Life Challenge- Day 1 SOLC
I am very uncertain about committing to the Slice of Life Challenge this year. Between school and evening commitments, I am not sure how I will fit in writing each and every day for the month. Honestly, sometimes I come home and just collapse on the couch. But my love of writing and reading other…
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Capturing Winter’s Beauty: A Journaling Journey
For the month of January, I am taking part in the challenge from Wild Wonder Foundation to nature journal each day. I will do my best to meet that challenge but also plan to give myself grace on the days I can’t fit it in. The above poem was written in response to the prompt…
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Finding Joy in Presence: A Poetic Reflection
Let me be lulled by the melody of your voice- the rises and falls, the acceleration, repetition and easing. Let me be infected with the joy of your smile and laughter so each cell of my body retains this energy once you depart. Let me be awed by the ideas, creativity and humor developed in…
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Navigating Christmas Emotions: From Sadness to Joy
“Deck the halls”…with tearful smiles “Just like the ones I used to know”…. bittersweet memories of Christmases past “I’ll be home for Christmas”… oh Dad how I wish you could be “My lights on the tree, I wish you could see”… hanging ornaments from my mom “Through the years we’ll be together, if the fates…
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A Table Teaches What It Means to Be Human
Each evening. exactly at 5:00 the family of 6 encircled a table- bumping elbows, knocking knees. horseplaying, laughing until the moment the food made by loving hands filled the table. Colored bowls filled with passed down recipes only known in the cook’s mind scattered across the surface, nearly fitting in the diameter. Squeezed in, around,…
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Nature’s Healing: Finding Light Through Darkness
Oh Mother Nature, I come to you today seeking your healing for my bleak soul adorned in mourning blackness. I want to sit amongst this community of sky touching spruce trees while the goldeness of our sun plays hide-n-seek with outstretched branches and tall, thin trunks. I ask you to help restore my soul, my…
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Nature’s Lesson: Revealing Our Authentic Selves
Pure beauty of self revealed- conforming masquerade ceases. Revealed jittery candid spirit- revealed beauty of pure self The past 2 weeks have been filled with the glorious colors of the season- rubies, tangerines, golds, russets. Many times I have stopped in awe of the scene before me. The sun highlighting these colors to the fullest.…
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Finding Magic in Morning Mist
Earth’s misty gray heavens silently descend to kiss the crown of Fall tipped leaves embracing them in momentary privacy, magnifying the morning hush allowing the world to rest for a few hours longer in the delayed brightness of day. Over the past few weeks, I have encountered more foggy mornings than I would say is…
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Last Row of the Season: A Poetic Journey
The season of rowing is ending- One last session on the canal Eight rowers in unison Gliding over water Sunshine to twilight Blush, violet, peach, grace the sky BEAUTY stuns It was the last row of the season. It is getting darker earlier and the Erie Canal will soon be drained. I had mixed emotions…
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Celebrating Life: Small Joys and Big Goals
Treasuring another year olderUnwrapping each day’s living giftSmall joy beholderTreasuring another year olderNew choices- my life’s molderHealthier, stronger, fitter- my body’s shiftTreasuring another year olderUnwrapping each day’s living gift September is my birthday month which often leads me to set goals for the coming year. After having some health concerns last year, I am treasuring…
Doodads and Doodles
A collection of casual word sketches about daily life
Collect moments, not things.
Doodads and Doodles 