Tag: family
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What I love about the people I am with today (December 20)
Today was my family Christmas. I got together with my Dad, step-Mom, siblings, spouses, and the kids. My aunt and uncle joined us too this year. Notably missing was our Mom, who yes, always joined us, even when my step-Dad was alive – he came too. Our parents always made the effort to get along,…
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What I am feeling hopeful about going into 2026
How do I put this into words? I have a feeling, an inclination, an idea. Last night (December 18) I finished up another women’s circle – this one was themed Creating an Intentional Life. Week by week we discussed how to show up for ourselves, how to reclaim our identity, and how to find our…
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How I feel loved (right now)
I had to have a think on this. Not because I haven’t felt surrounded by love lately, I have, but because how am I feeling it is different. How am I internalizing it, how is it showing up for me, how am I processing it, how am I accepting it. Am I accepting it? People…
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Three things I wouldn’t change about this year
Finding some light in this otherwise troubled year wasn’t especially difficult. Remembering the specifics proved a bit more colourful as my usual steel trap of a memory is overloaded these days. Lots of things being processed but not necessarily a lot of output. The little circle is whirling, but not much is happening! Now, most…
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Something for me this holiday
If you’ve been here a while or read back, you may be aware that I was trying to accomplish fifty things before I turned fifty. Because life got lifey, it became 50 things before the end of my fiftieth year. Well, that all got blown to hell with 2026 exploding onto the scene with all…
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The most important thing to me right (right now)
During my yoga teacher training this weekend, we were learning about how to do chanting and mantras. Our facilitator share one with us, which is one I am familiar with from other courses, and while we meditating to it, she said ‘send healing out to your community, who ever that it’ and I was unable…
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How we bring colour into our home
Following a similar thread as yesterday, I wanted to share some of the colour around our home during the dark, cold, and snowy days. This year, we have some new friends – a few friends from my Mom’s collections, including the “f**king” elves… Names such because my sister was forever putting the elves in compromising…
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Ways to bring a little more light into your home
I am a little late today, but I had to wait until it was dark to write tonight’s post. Today, I wanted to share ways I (we) bring a little more light into our house in the dark days of winter. As we approach the day of the year that gives us the fewest hours…
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One way I surprised myself this year…
As I recently said in a text to someone, “I am an emotional basketball.” Now, what I meant was basketcase, but autocorrect knew better, apparently. What does this mean? I have big emotions, many of them, all at once. They spill over, generally in the form of tears, often sobs, and I lose all ability…
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Three positive things in 2025
I am, or I try to be, a positive person. Glass half full kind of outlook. It can be easy to lose sight of that sometimes. Even with the gratitude practices and positive affirmations, when things don’t seem to being going the way you feel they should, it is hard to not be discouraged. But,…
The Voices In My Head 