celebrations
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Family Celebrations
If you can’t get rid of the family skeleton, you might as well make it dance. George Bernard Shaw It’s the season of jack- o -lanterns, ghosts, skeletons and trick or treat. It doesn’t matter the holiday, we celebrate them all. On Halloween you will find us each carving our own pumpkin and putting it…
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Christmas Tea
Christmas if doing a little something extra for someone. Charles Schulz I’ve been thinking about friends and Christmas. Maybe, Thanksgiving isn’t the only holiday to be thankful. Maybe, we should be thankful at Christmas, too. As I begin to think about preparations for my annual Christmas Tea it brings to mind how gratefulI I am…
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Happy Thanksgiving!
I hope you will enjoy this post from 2021. Grateful
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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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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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September
Autumn seemed to have arrived suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple. J.K. Rowlings The days grow shorter, there is a chill in the evening air. Soon it will be time to light a fire in the grate and put an extra duvet on the bed.…
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New Reality
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality, Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like. Lao Tzu Living for a year with the changes created by the pandemic didn’t mean things went back to normal when we received a vaccine,…
Aging with Grace 