Letting Go...To Grasp What Really Matters
“Hold your own Know your name And go your own way.” -Jason Mraz, Details in the Fabric I had forty-five minutes to explore Waikiki Beach on foot before I needed to meet up with my family. It wasn’t a long time, but it was enough – it was enough to go to my place of peace with uplifting music and…
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“You think I’d leave your side, baby You know me better than that Think I’d leave you down when you’re down on your knees, I wouldn’t do that.” -Sade, By Your Side My cat Banjo and I were reunited on Friday night. I’d just brought him home from a three-day stay at the animal hospital. He was diagnosed with pancreatitis…
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“The way home This is always the way home So you can rip that map to shreds, my dear. This is not the love you’ve had before This is something else. This is not the same as other days This is something else.” -Snow Patrol, Life on Earth My daughter’s school recently requested baby pictures for the fifth-grade graduation party….
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“There’s an ocean inside my head Waves that don’t ever rest This kind of beauty ain’t ordinary You look, but do you really see? Won’t you take your time on me? ‘Cause we got nowhere else to be.” –Vance Joy The last gift my daughters opened on Christmas morning was from my parents. Inside the box was a tropical beach…
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“I met you in the dark, you lit me up. You made me feel as though I was enough.” -James Arthur, Say You Won’t Let Go When I referred back to a very dark night I had one year ago in a recent post, I received an apology from one of my readers. “Please forgive me,” she wrote, “At the…
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“Gravity has taken better men than me Now how can that be? Just keep me where the light is Just keep me where the light is.” -John Mayer, Gravity A few weeks ago, Avery found her beloved hamster curled in a ball, cold and unmoving. She came to me in urgency, praying that she somehow misinterpreted the lifelessness of Mochi’s…
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“It feels like it’s 8 o’clock at night,” Avery said tonight as we drove home from volunteering at the cat shelter a… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
So proud of my sister @rebeccajmacy and the tireless work she does for women & children. Love you, Becca. twitter.com/rebeccajmacy/s…
A few months ago, I met someone who radiated the most warmth, acceptance, and strength I’d ever felt from another h… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…