Nothing depresses me more than people yelling at each other. In that situation, my two least favorite things happen: no one is listening to each other and nothing is getting accomplished. My daughter has taken to the word “hate” lately. “I hate Chick-fil-a all the way to outer space because they don’t have chocolate ice...
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I recently filed my taxes and took stock. Law job income = one thing. Photography income = another. Teaworthy income = zero. Bummer. Not that I anticipated it would be a big source of income, but it’s been three years and best I can’t tell, I have no income to show from this endeavor. In...
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Drinking: Sweet Tea Riding the cart at Kroger in 2008, she reached up for a Little Golden book. He handed her the one on top, Disney’s Sleeping Beauty. She concentrated on the pages throughout the entire shopping trip. Here’s an iphone pic from that day: SB, as she is known in our house, has been...
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Listening to: Bebel Gilberto – Tanto Tempo The Best Spiritual Writing 2010 edited by Philip Zaleski is in my bag these days. Thus far, the introduction, written by Pico Iyer has been my favorite. He writes: “Spiritual words do not come, in my experience, from someone who’s constantly and calmly seen the light, so much...
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{a photo from her birthday a few years back} For your birthday, {inspired by my friends Steve & Ross who have each written much more eloquently about their fathers and what they learned from them} a list of things I have learned from you that you might not know about, in no particular order: -Being...
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Drinking: Coffee warmed up from the morning Listening to: Weather With You – Neil Finn In the time I spent traveling yesterday, I could have made it all the way to Venice. My girl and I were traveling solo and she was an absolute champ all day which has me dreaming {probably unrealistically} about international...
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Tea time did not happen today. A certain airline is to blame and as this is not a ranting blog, I will save my commentary. I am grateful for so many people, places & things. Why waste the space to talk about anything else?
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Listening to: A Thousand Years of Good Prayers Titles – Lesley Barber Fantasy Floral Designs makes brooch bouquets for weddings. The brooches sometimes come from the family of the bride. Freak out! I saw them on Junebug Weddings and went to her site. The music is enchanting. This post from her blog made my cry....
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Drinking: Lemon Tea *TOMS has some cute new styles. If you buy one pair of TOMS, you are actually buying two pair as they donate the other to someone in need. Here’s a video about their amazing work. I love what one of the staffers says about the business, “Anybody who is starting a small...
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Drinking: water Listening to: Heartbeats – Jose Gonzales I have been having chest pains – most likely from stress. I’m going to the doctor today, but my first reaction to this is to feel a bit cheated because I have certainly been through infinitely more stressful times than these, so what gives? Sure, I’m juggling a lot...
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