Category: Inspiration
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I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
I beg your pardon I never promised you a rose garden Joe South This week reminded me of an old country song from the 70’s, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden. Message received. Rose gardens are not promised and can, on occasion, be replaced by a large patch of weeds. Over the past few […]
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Good Intentions
The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot. Michael Altshuler I don’t remember when I stopped making New Year’s resolutions. It was a while ago. Follow through is important to me. I guess I became tired of never successfully accomplishing what I set out to do. If you are one […]
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Too Much Reading
I guess there are never enough books John Steinbeck “Meditation for Women Who Read Too Much” is the title of today’s essay in the book I’m reading. I was ready to go to battle until I read the piece and realized the author was not in favor of doing less reading. It would be hard […]
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Control
The only thing you sometimes have control over is perspective. You don’t have control over the situation. But you have control over how you view it. Chris Pine I put out my Christmas Village last week. Last year it stayed packed away. We weren’t going to be entertaining in the middle of a pandemic and […]
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A Guardian Spirit
Never travel faster than your guardian angel can fly. Mother Teresa Yesterday, Hugo, our Poochon, and I went for our usual morning walk. Wandering through our neighborhood streets, the grass looks like straw and there is no need for a jacket with temperatures in the low 70’s. Yes, Virginia, global warming is real. Usually we […]
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A Little Space
Every life needs a little space. It leaves room for good things to enter in. Sarah Addison Allen Although our condo isn’t large, I managed to carve out a small space of my own. In a corner of our bedroom, the morning light shines through the window on an area just large enough for a […]
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Grateful
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new. Ralph Waldo Emerson One of my favorite photos is the one above. It was taken at a friend’s wedding reception. However, it seems to me it would be an ideal setting to celebrate Thanksgiving dinner. A table that seems to […]
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Ebb and Flow
The season when to come, and when to go, To sing or cease to sing, we never know Alexander Pope I love where I live. It is a designated historic area with lots of trees, parks and interesting buildings. One of my favorite places in our condo is a large, living room, window looking out […]
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Tis the Season
I’ve realized that sometimes you get no second chance and that it’s best to accept the gifts the world offers you. Paulo Coelho And so it begins, the mad rush to the holidays and year’s end. It always seems to me that once we get to Halloween the year is over in a blink of […]
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Another Look at Grace
I do not understand the mystery of grace-only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us. Anne Lamott When I chose, Aging with Grace, as the title for my blog, I did a lot of thinking about grace and what it means to me. Over the past […]
Aging with Grace 