Monthly Archives: September 2015

A Full Pantry

29 September 2015 Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.  ~Mahatma Gandhi   I love fall. Here in Northern California, the season has begun tiptoeing in, quietly slipping pomegranates and pumpkins in … Continue reading

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Touchstone – Go, Friend, Go!

25 September 2015 Promise me you’ll always remember:  You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.  ~ A.A. Milne I was working through big clots of thoughts about how important friendship is to … Continue reading

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Go, Friend, Go!

22 September 2015 We could learn a lot from crayons; some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others bright, some have weird names, but they all have learned to live together in the same box.  ~Robert Fulghum … Continue reading

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Touchstone – Shake it Up!

18 September 2015 The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.  ~W.B. Yeats We’re each day, every moment, creating life.  Creating our life. A month or so ago, my husband posted an old … Continue reading

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Shake it Up!

15 September 2015 dance all night play all day                                                               … Continue reading

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Touchstone – Laying Down the Gavel

11 September 2015 “Imperfections are not inadequacies; they are reminders that we’re all in this together.  ~ Brené Brown This morning a friend mentioned that she wanted to open some boxes, pigeonholes where she had set people with whom she’d … Continue reading

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Laying Down the Gavel

9 September 2015 And when the black thread breaks, the weaver shall look into the whole cloth, and he shall examine the loom also.   ~Kahlil Gibran, from The Prophet I’ve been thinking about judging lately. Several weeks ago I … Continue reading

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Touchstone – Treasure Hunt

4 September 2015 I hope you’ll discover, as I have, that it’s not what lands you in the dark woods that defines you, but what you do to make it out. – Joseph Luzzi, In a Dark Wood Last night … Continue reading

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Treasure Hunt

1 September 2015 A map does not just chart, it unlocks and formulates meaning; it forms bridges between here and there, between disparate ideas that we did not know were previously connected.  ~Reif Larsen Amazingly, here it is, already the … Continue reading

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