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Re-Entry
Hello dear readers. It’s been a while but somehow today seems to be the end of something and a gradual re-entry into something else. After weeks of pitching, condensing and packing to put our house on the market here in Denver, and…
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Just because you can …
For the last few months I have been engaged in a long distance remodeling project. Now that the project is almost complete I have reflected on how important it is to assemble a first rate team for such an undertaking. Like an orchestra with a…
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Time Out
A friend’s husband suddenly dying, adult children grieving; a funeral; another passing a “swallowing test” two months post “brain surgery”enabling a drink of water and a taste of food for the first time in 2 months; an adult son’s 29th birthday and visit for 3 precious…
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Reflection
Sometimes when many words have been spoken, a time of silence is renewing. Being with and not doing for is a wonderful change of habit. After an intense period of time, a shift in focus brings new awareness. Sometimes a picture is…
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A Different Perspective
Sometimes all we need to gain some insight into something that perplexes,irritates,confuses,angers,hurts, and keeps us stuck, is to change our way of thinking about it or to change the way we view it. Usually that does it, unless of course we want to hang on…
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Discovering the Grain
My father was a German master cabinet maker. New projects began with a trip to the small town lumber yard where we lived. He would look through the various offerings and then make a choice based on the end use , the hardness or softness, the straightness of the piece, the unique grain running…
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Photo Friends
I’ve been away for a photography workshop with Frans Lanting and associates in Santa, Cruz California. (www.lanting.com) I first heard of Lanting when he and two other world renowned masters of nature photography came for a two day Denver event in mid April. I was especially drawn in by his emphasis on the importance…
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Endings
With major transitions, come new challenges and responses. This sound so obvious, but ask the survivors of a bombing in Boston if their lives will not be forever changed as they navigate their way through through emotional, physical, and spiritual challenges? How about our neighbors in Texas whose town blew up ? What about…
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One Season Following Another
In the midst of major drought in our mile high city of Denver, it blesses me to know that tulips can “spring” up out of the driest of dry soil. As we begin our two day a week, water restrictions for outdoor watering , we learn to be intentional about identifying what we value…
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When my oldest son was little I gave him a book that was in my toy consultant sample packet. The title: “Little While Friends.” He received it just before we went on a family road trip one summer where we explored three towns named Keystone in three states … among other things. Stopping to…