Tag Archives: challenge

What I have learned during the pandemic

Every challenge in life has the potential to teach us so much. To open our closed eyes, to bring us nearer to inclusion and love, to allow us to ease the grip of human fear. What have you learned during … Continue reading

Posted in October, 2021 | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | 22 Comments

Walktober meander: no trail, no path, no destination

Some of you may be familiar with Robin’s (breezes at dawn) annual Walktober blog posts. Every October she invites all of us bloggers to take a walk, blog about it, and share a link to it on her original post. … Continue reading

Posted in October 2020 | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | 62 Comments

What will count on your deathbed?

Here is an assignment–should you choose to accept it. Pretend you’re on your deathbed.  It’s the end of this life.  Goodbye moon.  Goodbye songbirds.  Goodbye everything awful and beautiful. What advice might your dying almost-gone self give to your current … Continue reading

Posted in July, 2020 | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 33 Comments

Close the door and stay inside all winter…

Confession time.  “Readers, I have sinned…” No, no, no.  It wasn’t sinning exactly.  But I think the Wrong Impression may have been gleaned if you’ve been reading my blog this winter.  You may think I’ve been stepping outside and enjoying … Continue reading

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What would make you dance around the living room before 10 a.m.? GRATITUDE CHALLENGE!!

I have had the most amazing day ever. I am the happiest I have been since…well, since recent memory.  You know those kinds of days? When you can’t quit smiling and your life feels like pure bliss?  Joy pulsates through … Continue reading

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Emma and the Great Drawing Challenge

Ladies and gentlemen, be gentle.  Be very gentle.  This is a very tentative blog.  An insecure blog.  A blog written by someone who has very few drawing skills. It all started a few weeks ago.  My friend Emma challenged me … Continue reading

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