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unpacking

Published on September 10, 2020September 17, 2020 by Dawn Marie7 Comments

Cuppycake and I enjoy traveling together.

No matter car, plane, or train it’s all about the journey….

or is it the destination in the end?

(Nobody ever seems to remember!)

“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” Ursula K. Le Guin

This quote was first painted above our fireplace mantle in our home in 1997, then followed us to our current home in 2014 where it remains today.

My children often tease that it shall be woven into my eulogy one day – mostly because despite having seen this quote the majority of their lives they still continue to mis-quote it.

Which they deliberately know drives me crazy, giggles.

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white-flag strategy

Published on September 2, 2020November 1, 2020 by Dawn Marie22 Comments

Several of my more recent posts have been a “purging,” as such.

A regular tossing-aside of some creepy-crud matters!

Could you tell?

Hopefully, it has been quite obvious that…

I do not like discord!

Nope. Nada. Zilch.

And there certainly has been enough of THAT floating around since 2016!

(With no signs of stopping, I might add.)

So, what’s an optimist to do?

(Besides cheering them on – toward a happier path, that is!)

Giggles.

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a gentle approach.

Published on August 28, 2020September 3, 2020 by Dawn Marie4 Comments

Strive for peace with all men, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord. Hebrews 12:14

A peaceful day at the lake with treasured company.

Peace is a word used to describe a sense of feeling calm and relaxed.

We may automatically think of ourselves as lying back on a deck chair in the sun with no work to do and no one around to disturb us or of paddling a kayak through the calm waters of a lake all to our own.