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On pi day, I started typing some gratitude, right in the middle of a month, and with no deadlines or expectations to polish or publish attached. It has quickly developed into a sanity-saving, not-restricted-to-gratitude, self-integrating tool that I am relying on heavily for self-care purposes. I’ve mostly experienced mental health struggles in my life as . . . → Read More: ~thankful thursday~ surreal chamomile 
Rich brought me home this rainbow! Quinn wrapped up his birthday reading by rainbow candlelight. Gray, but with rainbow edges if you look closely; my recent days have been spent staring through a microscope at the miracle of life, specifically, arctic cod embryos at 24 hours post-fertilization. Anyone else see a butterfly? . . . → Read More: ~rainbow mondays~trout lilies and tutus 
I worked on the Haunted House that day, and I’m still not sure why slicing into a salt dough brain, spray painting creepy skulls onto plastic tablecloths, and developing a menu for a haunted cafeteria was so satisfying, but I strangely enjoyed myself. When I got home, we had dinner on the earlier side and Quinn asked me to play his new game he was creating. It was a build-your-own Jurassic park game, and I managed to accumulate 8 triceratopses in a forest enclosure on a piece of graph paper that evening. . . . → Read More: ~a month in the life of a lifelong learner~ enigma 
Time feels like it moves along like a Fibonacci sequence, spiraling ever more quickly, in bigger bites each year. It does feel like he was 1 for a while, then 2, then 3, then started jumping from 5 to 8 to 13, soon he’ll be 21 and before I know it he’ll be 34! . . . → Read More: lucky thirteen 
other posts you may enjoy:~this moment~the cove~black and white wednesday~ soul of summer~quinn’s fortieth month~ . . . → Read More: ~black and white wednesday~ that’s a wrap 
The tree-filtered sunlight projected the smiley faces drawn on the frosty bus windows across the gray seat backs, and they danced and smiled and stretched larger as we drove along. . . . → Read More: ~thankful thursday~ butterfly effect  2 comments  abundance, gratitude, natural world, parenting  abundance, back yard, being a mama, brothers, butterflies, butterfly effect, cranberries, dorkaversary, family, farm, flowers, gratitude, husband, kitties, love, nachos, nature, ocean, outside, parenting, parents, photography, pie, popcorn, prayer, self care, shadows, thankful thursday, thanksgiving, webs, wood stove 
~8-23 to 9-23~ Our end of summer family trip to New York! The cousins absconded with Quinn and were barely heard from. It was neat how at their current ages (9, 11, 12) they do a lot more talking as they play, so there is less action and a lot of . . . → Read More: ~a month in the life of a lifelong learner~ holy coprolites, he’s in seventh grade! Leave a comment abundance, gratitude, lifelong learning, natural world, parenting abundance, being a mama, books, cousins, dinosaurs, dungeons and dragons, family, fossils, grammy and grampy, gratitude, love, math, minecraft, music, nature, new york, outside, paleontology, parenting, reading, reciprocity 
The Ghost of Gratitude Past is a comforting companion, carrying a time capsule full of love letters to the world mailed to my future self, reverberating forward through time in ever widening ripples. . . . → Read More: ~thankful thursday~wonder woman and spider webs 
Today I participated in another of my favorite mindfulness practices, one concerning impermanence, like sand painting but with squashes, already scattered and but a memory. Tomorrow I will fill the slow cooker with leek and potato, celeriac and parsley root, and some imaginal cells to remind me that next summer will unfurl its colorful wings in time. . . . → Read More: ~thankful thursday~ fall crops and late bloomers 
It may take more years of this practice before I can truly feel thankful for darkness, or the meltdown it initiates in me. Simmering in my slow cooker today, I’m grateful for memories of summer, excellent walks with my husband, and butterflies. . . . → Read More: ~thankful thursday~ shadows and butterflies One comment abundance, gratitude, lifelong learning, natural world, parenting abundance, band, being a mama, books, butterflies, executive function skills, family, gratitude, lifelong learning, light, love, monarchs, music, nana, nature, nourish, ocean, outside, parenting, photography, self care, shadows, sunset, thankful thursday, webs |
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