Fall in love with being alive
So I don’t know who Brooke Hampton is but I read this quote by her that goes “Your purpose is not to spend your entire life wandering around looking for your purpose. Your purpose is to walk in your magic and move in your power. Your purpose is to be fully alive. That’s it. The […]
Time goes faster every year and Christmas is always over too soon. It’s funny how something can be sad and happy at the same time. Like nostalgia. Like Christmas morning when all the Christmas mornings of your life come back to you and you remember all the joy and all the years you’ve left behind. […]
As a family we went to Great Wolf Lodge in the Poconos of Pennsylvania as an early Christmas gift for my nieces. After totally wiping out after going down a water slide with my sister she said “didn’t you not used to like this kind of thing?” I answered that “I got weird.” This is […]
The color of a migraine is mauve. It looks like a shaky picture taken at night. I’ve had a migraine since Monday and it’s all that I can think about. I hope that when it is over I can remember to be grateful for all of the moments that I don’t have a migraine and […]
I often wonder what it’s like inside other people’s heads. For me it’s like this: I want to watch Home Alone for Christmas. Oh, it would be fun to do a Home Alone theme dinner with Little Nero’s Pizza and ice cream sundaes. I need to go grocery shopping. I wonder what Christmas plays are […]
I don’t know what the songs are talking about. Walking in winter is Never a wonderland. The air stings your nose and eyes, ice forms where your lungs used to be, any exposed skin goes numb and begins to ache, any unexposed skin is muffled in so many layers it’s difficult to move. The whole […]
I read somewhere that gratitude is the single most powerful method of increasing happiness. What with that and it being Thanksgiving it seems like an obvious time to talk about gratitude. I’m grateful for every day of good health I have, for the people in my life, for giving my dog belly rubs, for the […]
Sometimes I feel how breakable I am. A wrist turns a little wrong, an ankle does a funny twist, muscles pull, back kinks, sore necks. Nails break, toes get stubbed, hair gets caught in a zipper and gets pulled out. A germ can make you sick and you can’t even see it. It’s so easy […]
How does Mary Oliver always know how I feel? Like in her poem, “Starlings in Winter”: “I feel my bootstrying to leave the ground,I feel my heartpumping hard. I want to think again of dangerous and noble things.I want to be light and frolicsome.I want to be improbable beautiful and afraid of nothing,as though I […]
I’m always wishing for more time. I can’t imagine that even after a lifetime I will be satisfied that I’ve had enough. So I am going to do the cheesy things. I am going to do all the things I can. I am going to dress up for Halloween. I am going to watch 80s […]
