Category: Inspiration
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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…
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Retrospection
What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a life time of chocolate Katherine Hepburn A life time of chocolate and a myriad of other influences. All the wrinkles, white hair and extra pounds have been earned. As we age, our past experiences and choices have a way of catching up with…
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Adjustments Required
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. William Arthur Ward Finding the perfect coffee maker has been a struggle for us. We have been through a few Keurig. Unfortunately, for us they don’t last long. I am fine with my little French Press, however, my…
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Abundance isn’t Always Simple
She gives us hope that adversity can be overcome and it’s possible to find a way back.
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Juggling Your Life
I dropped my juggling balls and my face grew embarrassed. It wasn’t’t until then that I looked around the circus of life and noted all were too consumed on their own juggling act to see. That’s when I learned to have fun, and kick the balls instead. Stefanie Schneider As I become older there will…
Aging with Grace 