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Breaking News: Quirkyalone* Survives Marriage!
This evening**, I went to a parade. By myself. It was a winter lights festival kind of parade, with Christmas music and hot chocolate and lots of sparkly lights and marching bands. It reminded me of Stars Hollow, in a 'this is an American small town tradition' kind of way. It seemed like a charming thing to experience, but my husband is gone and I ( Read more... ) -
Today's Journal Entry
I am sitting in the stillness of my empty house. It's becoming clean and sorted (my continuing project for today), the lights are off 'cause it's a hot day, and it's looking bare 'cause I've started to pack ( Read more... ) -
Giving Thanks
The growing season in Alberta has officially come to an end. Night and days have been getting colder and colder, and this morning I woke up to frost covering the grass for the first time. My produce has been in from the garden for about a month now, and I've been trying my hardest to use it all while it's fresh. It was a good year. Predictably, my ( Read more... ) -
Anecdotal
Things growing in my yard:
tomatoes
basil
oregano
rosemary
chives
parsley
strawberries
zucchini
beans
peas
onions
carrots
lettuce
spinach
raspberries
rhubarb
an apple tree
potential potatoes (they're not quite planted...)
at least a dozen kinds of flowers
trees, weeds, grass, bushes
I've been seeing a 3 year old girl (let's call her Anna) for individual treatment ( Read more... ) -
For the truths that still confound us
I just got in from a couple hours working in my yard. I am feeling sleepy, sore, and thoroughly satisfied. There's a lot of work to be done: there are still more weeds than wanted plants, raking to do (from the mowing I did), a compost bin to set up, some pruning and broken branches to deal with... the list goes on. And as soon as I get to the end ( Read more... ) -
Shiny
I have nothing very insightful to say tonight. In fact, I'm not sure I have anything to say at all. However, I am supposed to be studying, and it's amazing what things suddenly become just crucial when the other option is learning more about child language development. Actually, I have a very good strategy to combat this. (19 years of education was ( Read more... ) -
Just so I can say I did
Um, hi.
It's been awhile, and I have no creative juice at all in my body at this moment, but I need to do this so I can say it's done and get on with it. Last I spoke to you, it was July, and I was finishing up my first clinical placement and preparing to leave for Africa. Here's a highlights reel since then ( Read more... ) -
(Untitled)
"Quiet Little Place"
K's Choice
In this quiet little place
I can't remember having known a different pace
In this quiet little place
I can surrender to the beauty of its face
And now everything I see
Whether it's an airplane or a tree
It makes me wonder
About the things I must have missed
And the chains around my wrists
They are no longer
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Embracing the Chaos
I'm beginning to think peace is something we made up to keep us from being satisfied with all this luscious chaos
In truth, I've found much greater peace in embracing all the luscious chaos than in trying to deny it or control it, so it works out well. Every once in a while I do manage to remember that I don't have to be in charge of everything. * ( Read more... )