I have at least four boxes of journals that I recently moved with me to North Carolina. I have traveled with some of them as long as twenty years. They have gone everywhere with me excepting the year that I was in London- for that adventure they stayed in my mother’s shed.They are heavy and [...]
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Today is…
Today is warm and I am reminded of one of the few things I love about south Georgia. There is a warm breeze and the day is lovely and blue.
And that is all that today needs to be.
Fresh…
So on Monday I am beginning the Feel Good Fast and I am getting very excited. It is not a fast- it is a cleansing and a realigning of how you eat and how you live day to day. I have eliminated animal products from my diet before and I slipped back into old habits; [...]
Learn Something New Everyday in Review
I had so much fun this September Learning Something New Everyday with Shimelle. It really makes me look forward to working on a Christmas Journal with her again. Every time I take a class with Shimelle I do indeed learn something new- even when it is not the title of the course. So I finally [...]
stepping stones
i step up to the morning
as if i were stepping up to the plate, but
i have never been good at sports
been good at some things, but i don’t
quite remember them now
so i step up to the morning- i will begin either way
i will remember i will
and still i will go barefoot
and i will make a [...]
Play Like This….
I learned my largest lesson of the week today and that is that I need to play like this (i.e. with paints and brushes and words) everyday. Why do I forget this? Why do I think that I don’t have time for this? This is something I must do. I wrote earlier this week about [...]
Learning in progress…
This week I feel like I am still processing what I learned. I have had so many ups and downs- it was in many ways for me a very hard week and I am still not quite sure why…
So I am ruminating over what I learned this week and frankly it is not all that [...]
This Week I Learned Many Things…
I am participating in Shimelle’s Learn Something New Everyday Class again this year and it has been lovely… Here are some highlights from the week….
September 1st- Sometimes, especially when grades are due I think that I assign too much writing.
September 2nd- If I keep moving-it keeps getting easier…
September 3rd- The things I dread doing are [...]
Jumping In
I love this picture- I took it last week when I was sitting at the park… at first there were several turtles sitting on the rocks, but slowly they all started to jump back into the rushing water below them. I have felt like those turtles this past week- I was sitting and sunning myself [...]
