A little love, energy, and life, for all of us who continue to spring back and reach for life, even in our brokenness.
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#WEP June Challenge
- Accidental Blogs
- Dead
- Empathy
- A crazy woman
- Being the Change
- Covid Memorial Project
- Diapers and Dandelions: Mindful Balance
- Don’t Blame Me!
- Dreadful Dreams: Crimes Against Myself?
- Eloise
- Giving: Did I Do the Right Thing? A Revisit and a Scrutiny
- I Choose to Change the Story I Tell
- I don’t want your money, but . . .
- I know nothing.
- Lost and Found: This is me
- Mothers, I see you
- One Nation, Many Voices: I quietly raise my voice
- The Parish Fair
- Skin in the Game and 4 Conflict Conversation Tips
- This is not the plan: When a hissy throws a shoulder
- Worthy of Kindness?
- Your Shoes
- Gratitude
- Secular Sacrament
- Work for the Gravy
- Work for the Soul
- Daily Blog Challenge: Three Things I Learned
- Don’t give up
- Existential Blogger
- The flow: I’m here for it.
- A good story
- Hobbies and Derelicts
- I know nothing.
- It’s time for a word.
- Makers
- My number is up: Fourteen
- Nanowrimo: Stop Thinking and Write
- On finding my público
- Persimmon Lessons
- The Power of Presence
- Prep Work
- Whose story is it anyway?
- The Writing River: One Writer’s Journey
- A year in the life of morning pages
- Alzheimer’s Bull
- Alive for the moments
- Alzheimer’s and Bumper Cars
- Alzheimer’s Bull
- Alzheimer’s River
- And then hospice
- Bananas!
- The Cane
- Caregiver’s Note to Self: You’re Enough
- Deep on the Surface
- The Difference
- Eat the Ice Cream
- Dear Dad, I see you.
- Dying at Home, but Visitors Welcome
- The Ebb
- Eulogize the Living
- Game, Set, Match: The Last Walk
- Gems and Shards
- House of Memory Shards
- I don’t care: A caregiver’s love
- If I break, you’ll know: fold vs. wad
- In the Weeds
- Just like that
- Just Sit With Me
- Life Lessons: Mom and a Song
- Living on liminal time
- A long row to hoe
- Losing is hard
- My patio moment
- Phone Calls and Fairs
- The Relief Side of Grief
- Roll up your sleeves
- Running out of breath (not really a poem, but . . .)
- She stopped making brownies.
- They Come at Sundown
- This is my house!
- This is not the plan: When a hissy throws a shoulder
- The tricky question: How’s your mom?
- Two Grandmothers, One Disease, Three Stories
- We’re not okay. But we’ll be fine. We tuck and roll.
- #WEP Challenge: The Great Wave Metaphor
- What are we going to do about this mess?
- Working with you
- Uncertain Journey
- You can’t force a puzzle.
- Connections
- Community
- Family and Friends
- Being Exes Without Exing Family Bonds
- Celebrate the Lessons
- Circles Are Better
- Figs and Promises
- Happy Father’s Day
- I didn’t plan to be a mom.
- I won’t miss you
- Knee deep in weeds with friends
- Lost and Found: This is me
- Love Is a Four-Letter Word
- Love Out of Love
- LTYM Cast Spotlight
- Make Time
- A mother’s heart
- No perfect mom
- Open Email to my Dad: my post-2016 election twitch
- Open Letters
- Penny Nichols: Why We’re Connected
- Small Things
- Tiny and Big Motherhood: My LTYM Experience
- Garden & Recipes
- Gardening
- Something Like Recipes
- Baked Chicken with Snap Beans
- The Best Smoothie in the World
- Boneless, Skinless, and Moist! Grilled Chicken Breast
- Cabbage with Sausage
- My CSA Adventure: The First Five Weeks
- Double Choked Shrimp Brie Soup
- Feta Chicken with Squash and Zucchini
- Greens: Don’t Toss Them Out!
- Grill to Oven Squash and Zucchini
- Roasted Fig Chicken
- Roasted Zucchini and Squash
- Smothered Squash and Zucchini Spaghettis
- Snap Beans and Sausage
- Sour Cream Marinade
- Southern-style Smothered Squash
- String Hash Browns
- Tasty Turnip Fries
- Thanksgiving Leftovers
- Too many cucumbers? Try keeping a pickle jar
- Zucchini Straws
- Health & Beauty
- Stories & Poems
- 50-Word Story Challenge
- Beyond Scylla: Debbie Beaufort
- Beyond Scylla: Isaac
- Beyond Scylla: Kiara
- Beyond Scylla: Light is Magic
- Beyond Scylla: Marlena, you don’t know me.
- Beyond Scylla: Ramena’s Riptide Dream
- Decline: A Short Story
- Love Is All You Need: February 2022 WEP Challenge
- The Madness of the Left-Handed McKennedy Women: A Short Story
- Navigating the Dark
- The sounds of fabric
- Spring back
- Time Out
- What are these days?
- What if in the end
- Your Shoes
- Garden Glass Words
- Betterlands Shop
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Too true. My best friend from childhood fought so hard for life, when she had cancer. I can well identify with this.
This hits home for far too many, I’m afraid. Thanks for reading.
This is so true. Sometimes, we feel like the most we can do is lean toward to sun in the hopes that we let in some light into our darkness. Everyone does what they can when they can…one day at a time.
Yes! And it’s important to have eyes and hearts open to hope and light.
This is so timely for me. Working through a very traumatic family event and each day is a recommitment to moving forwards.
Wishing you the best as you reach forward.