Stillness

The stillness passes so quickly. That’s why we have to be grateful for it when it comes. I have spent far too much time being angry about its passing. Rather than celebrating it while it’s here. How absurd to think that right now I’d be able to have the kind of stillness that lasts....

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Slow Down

When life won’t slow down we have to do things to throw a stick in the spinning wheel. We go go go until we drop. But we need to rest. To spend time with family and do other things. To get away. What would life look like if we didn’t need these breaks? These...

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Shut Off

There’s no off button. No all to yourself. No laying in bed binge watching eight hours of your favorite show. It’s compromise and sharing and balancing the load. Trading on and off. Continuing to give when others have long moved on to something else. Finding patience where there is none. Finding love where there...

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Face The Music

It is so easy to avoid the hard work. The work that matters. There are hundreds of thing i can easily distract myself with. Pretending they have value. But the nagging doesn’t go away. The nagging doesn’t stop until the work is done. When all you do every day is row, sleep, eat, row,...

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The Best Medicine

Laughter. Full bellied uncontrollable laughter. Tears of pure joy. And with the one you love the most. We need more laughter. There’s too much anger, and frustration, and fear. I want to find more ways to laugh. To laugh at the hard stuff. It’s so much better for the soul. PS – If you...

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Stick It Out

We can’t possibly know what the end of a journey will look like. We can imagine and dream and hope. And that is our fuel. When things get tough and we don’t feel like we are making progress – this is what we need to rely on. And if you stick it out long...

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While It Lasts

I don’t know what happened in the cosmos last night, but today was a near perfect day. Both boys slept through the night in their own beds (Julian only up once). They had a great day playing with Roberta. I got a candidate hired. I made some new connections at work and have an...

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