When I was a little girl, I said a prayer. I asked earnestly to never forget what it feels like to be a kid. I don’t know exactly what my thought process was at the time. (I was quite young.) But there was something I saw in the grown-ups around me that I KNEW I […]
Not everyone knows this about me, but I LOVE TO DRIVE FAST! In high school, my friends called me Mario after experiencing my driving. Back then I was in a Toyota Celica hatchback, but I took it off-road sometimes, and pushed it to the limits in turns and everywhere else. I have fond memories of
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I went hiking for the first time in about a month. It was glorious! Being on the trail is like air to me. Too long away from it and I feel like I’m suffocating. As I began climbing the mountain, I felt a difference in my body. I set out to meet the trail in
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How is it that I go from feeling immense gratitude and love, and the sense that all is well and perfect in my life… to writhing on my floor sobbing with no interest in going on at all? If you’ve got an answer, or a SOLUTION, I’d love to hear it! Cuz that is how
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It’s happened before. But this time…this time was different. This time I truly faced my mortality. The reality that my body, this flesh shell that I live inside, is fleeting, disposable, perishable and is subject to weakness. When the body seems to “fail” us, we realize that the power we think we have over life
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I had the most wonderful lunch! I took myself to my favorite Thai restaurant. I ordered things from the menu that I’d never tried before. (I have certain go-to dishes ordinarily) I enjoyed soup and even dessert. I sipped jasmine tea and finished the whole pot. It’s like it was my birthday or some other
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I’ve stopped wearing mascara on my lower lashes. It’s become a necessity since I started crying. All. The. Time. Seriously though, there are days when I have put on makeup and DURING application, tears would come. I would clean up my face and continue to apply makeup only to walk out of the bathroom and
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WOW!! Lots of things have been shifting in my life this past month! In a way I feel like I am re-birthing myself. Maybe that sounds weird, but the truth is that SHIT IS HAPPENING!! (In a good way…) What I want to share with you about my experience is this: OPEN TO THE EXPERIENCE
I was talking with a friend the other day when he made a comment about going to the gym that evening. “Oh Geez! The gym is going to be PACKED tonight!” he said with a look of disgust on his face. His anticipation was of the droves of people who show up at
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