Category: Nitty Gritty Dirty Grief
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Peace
“Eating with the fullest pleasure- pleasure, pleasure, that is, that does not depend on ignorance- is perhaps the profoundest enactment of our connection with the world. In this pleasure we experience our dependence and our gratitude, for we are living in a mystery, from creature we did no make and powers we cannot comprehend” -Wendall BarryLast…
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“I grow old … I grow old … I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.” T.S. Eliot
Thank you T.S. Eliot. I don’t know quite what this means because last time I checked, the boyfriend jeans need to be worn rolled with a peep-toe pump. And yet alas, I have been greeted with suggestions that I am from another era. The first was the news that Captain and Tennille were getting divorced.…
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Chicken Carcass
It is a new year. And I have made resolutions….to be more present, to write more, to determine what path will truly make me content, to do push ups…… And to stick to a budget. I KNOW! Holy heck…..a budget. And those who know me are gwaffing at the last resolution. I am not a…
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2014 is Calling
It is a new year. I still hate push ups. It took me three weeks to feel normal after the flu. Christmas has come and gone and I now have only 11 ½ months to make this year extraordinary. So far it is off to a good start. Did you know our work was mentioned…
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The Rise and Fall of a Boot Camp Queen:
I am not in the picture above. Because I hate push-ups. BUT….I signed up for Boot Camp. It was only three weeks. I have never taken a Boot Camp class before and quite honestly it scared me; all those push-ups, burpies and mountain climbers. But this class was only three weeks and I thought I could do…
Samsmom: Life, Joy, Loss and Loving your Mitochondria 