Tag: life real raw broken beautiful
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Social Distancing Week 46…Deep Breaths
I have begun to wonder this week if I’ve actually been holding my breath for the past 11 months. Each vaccinated person in my immediate sphere is like a little dose of extra hope and is accompanied by the gift of deeper and cleansing breaths for me.
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Social Distancing Week 44…Spontaneous Tears
44 weeks of running on fumes and having to repeatedly pivot to new ways of doing life/parenting/work, combined with angst surrounding national security in the wake of the attempted insurrection, anxiety over new and more aggressive COVID variants, the close-but-not-close-enough promise of being vaccinated, and deep concern about the current state of my eldest child’s…
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Social Distancing Week 43…It Didn’t Have To Be This Way
Friday, January 8, 2021…12:28pm The end of week 43 As my sister-in-law said on Wednesday, 2021 said to 2020, “Hold my beer…” What do we have to do to get ourselves out of the bad dystopian novel in which we are living? As if the 43 weeks of pandemic life weren’t bad and bizarre enough….this…
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Social Distancing Weeks 41 & 42…Heaviness & Hopefulness
We will mark the end of this year with hearts that are heavy for all that has been lost and also hopeful for all that still can be.
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Social Distancing Week 40…A Long Winter Nap
We know the next two weeks will look nothing like what is traditional for us. We don’t know how we will fill the time and spaces that are wide open in the absence of opportunities to be among family and friends. I am resisting the urge to fill all the empty spaces with plans.
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Social Distancing Week 39…Finding A Gentle Joy
Gentle joy feels attainable as opposed to aspirational – so gentle joy is my goal and also my wish for all of you.
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Social Distancing Week 38…Hope
Hope for a healthier and safer 2021 is alive and well, but we’re not there yet.
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Social Distancing Week 37…Nothing and Everything
Friday, November 27, 2020…7:44pm The end of week 37. . We’re coming off a week spent at a desert vacation rental with my family. One day back in the summer, I suggested we make a plan to spend Thanksgiving week away together. Somehow even way back in July I had a feeling we would still…
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Social Distancing Week 36…Both/And 3.0
Somewhere along the way in the past 36 weeks I forgot to keep living in the both/and.
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Social Distancing Week 35…Change of Scenery
Here’s to changes in scenery and finding small blessings in this upside down life.
We're All A Little Broken 