It’s been awhile since I’ve made a Taking Stock post. Here’s a little peek at the things that have been on my mind & heart lately. Making :: our home more comfortable & beautiful. Cooking :: cake muffins on the agenda for this afternoon. Drinking…
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We were trees.
Read more“In our former lives, we were trees. Maybe we have even been oak trees ourselves. This isn’t just Buddhist theory; it’s science. The human species is a very young species—we appeared on the Earth only recently. Before that, we were rock, we were gas, we…
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This Week // 01.09.15
Read moreRoman peeking over my desk. I gave M. the hair gel and asked him to style Roman’s hair away from his eyes. This photograph is the result of that request. It’s a pretty good representation of what this past week has been… crazy. As I…
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Farewell 2014, Hello 2015!
Read moreOh, 2014! What can I say? You were terrible & beautiful — just like life itself. There were a lot of hard times and plenty of insanely good times. Last year, I watched my baby turn into a toddler and then into the sweetest little…
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the park at sunset
Read more“Through the blur, I wondered if I was alone or if other parents felt the same way I did — that everything involving our children was painful in some way. The emotions, whether they were joy, sorrow, love or pride, were so deep and sharp…
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Cultivate Your Own Happiness
Read moreEach month, several magazines come to our house. Strangely, we don’t subscribe to any magazines. The magazines all come addressed to the woman who lived here before us. There are a lot of them. Maybe five or six a month? Cosmopolitan, Elle, Glamour, Food, Parents.…
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Trees in Winter
Read more“I realise there’s something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they’re experts at letting things go.” –Jeffrey McDaniel The trees are bare. The warm autumn blaze has passed. The landscape is cold and barren. Now it is up to us to make it warm…
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everything changes, then changes again
Read moreThere’s nothing like the change of seasons to remind us of impermanence. Life is in a constant state of change. No matter who we are, no matter what we are going through — there’s one thing about life that ties us all together: it keeps…
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getting by //
Read moreHello, friends. Just stopping by for a moment to say that we have not, in fact, fallen off the face of the earth. I am still dealing with some health issues, so it will likely be a little while until things are back to normal…