I had to hold my head a certain way to overlay the light reflections across, say, a butterfly. How I hold my head seems important to practicing gratitude, to finding light. . . . → Read More: ~thankful thursday~ yet to let me down
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What I did on my summer vacation part one: June in Cortland New York. . . . → Read More: ny textures 
That’s XVI for you Roman numeral fans. . . . → Read More: sixteen ~ oxygen 
I keep turning toward it, and it keeps being there to greet me. . . . → Read More: ~thankful thursday~ soft walls  Leave a comment  abundance, gratitude, natural world, parenting, thankful thursday  abundance, beach, being a mama, butterflies, coparenting, dad, date night, family, farm, gratitude, gummi vitamins, husband, kitties, light, love, mom, nature, new york, ocean, outside, parenting, photography, self care, sunrise, sunset, sunshine, thankful thursday 
A long-held dream comes true. . . . → Read More: banner day One comment abundance, gratitude, lifelong learner, lifelong learning, natural world, parenting abundance, being a mama, butterflies, celebration, cows, dragon house, dreams, first day of school, fish, gratitude, home, kodiak, lifelong learning, love, mama bears, nature, ocean, octopus, otters, outside, parenting, photography, publishing, science, sea stars, UFOs coming for cows, water, whales, wishes, writing 
At some point the next day I will remember that it doesn’t matter what the reading on the gratitude gauge says, what matters is showing up for it. . . . → Read More: ~thankful thursday~ hope and home 
Into the isolation room she would hustle when the morphine drip beeped its “downstream occlusion” alarm, proclaiming, “it’s the song of my people!” And would joke along with us about how Nancy was just trying to get us to change the subject. . . . → Read More: ~thankful thursday~ the helpers 
I saw her appreciate simple pleasures in those last days she spent in her house, things I hadn’t seen her do before. She spun the prisms in her window at sunset and watched rainbows dance around the ceiling. She delighted in a squishy silicone ring I bought her as a placeholder for the wedding ring she had misplaced. She said yes every time I suggested going for a walk. . . . → Read More: ~thankful thursday~ shine-dripping 
Collecting butterflies while not vacationing is a lot like practicing gratitude. . . . → Read More: ~thankful thursday~ collecting butterflies 
Wings made of something as fragile as tissue paper or gauze stretched across the thinnest wire, would melt in heavy rain, would shred in strong wind, would shatter in a freeze. . . . → Read More: ~summer shorts~ survivor |
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