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Guest Post & Book Giveaway: Why Change Can Be Difficult
Today’s guest post comes from New York Times Best Selling Author, Eldon Taylor. A few months ago, Eldon’s team reached out to me regarding his brand new book—Self-Hypnosis And Subliminal Technology. Since then I have had the opportunity to read the book and to become…
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everything passes, everything changes.
“Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.” —Claude Monet “Everything passes. Everything changes. Just do what you think you should do.” —Bob Dylan…
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10 Halloween Party + Craft Ideas
We were planning to have a Halloween party this year, but then this happened and we scrapped the idea. That hasn’t kept me from living vicariously through Pinterest though! I’ve been collecting Halloween party + craft ideas and here are ten of my favourites. We’ll…
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autumnal thoughts…
“I’ve had the wind knocked out of me, but never the hurricane.” —Jeffery McDaniel “The thought of sitting in front of a man behind a desk and telling him that I wanted a job, that I was qualified for a job, was too much for…
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like they’re falling in love with the ground.
the leaves are all falling / and they’re falling like they’re falling in love with the ground. Thank you all for your lovely comments & emails after my last post. This space is a light to me in the darkness and I am deeply, deeply…
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Sometimes the hardest thing and the right thing are the same.
When I wrote earlier this month that I could feel big changes stirring in my bones, I wasn’t prepared for quite how big those changes would be & how quickly they would take hold. This past month has been one of the most difficult ones…
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The Button Tin
My grandmother collected buttons in a red and yellow tin. As a girl, I played with those buttons for hours and hours and hours. I sorted them by size, by shape, and by colour. I named them. I made them into families. I knew which…