Tag Archives for family
Hard & True
Four years ago today, I saw my mother for the last time. I held and stroked her hand. I listened too intensely the sound of her breathing. I was 28 and my brother was 11. She had just celebrated her 48th birthday four days earlier. In the late hours of the evening, she died as […]
Cultivating Wonder & Letting Go
How did you cultivate a sense of wonder in your life this year? I let myself get messy with paint and other materials, I turned dog walking into an excuse to explore and imagine, I treated myself to new tools and materials to court and inspire my muse, I didn’t try to box my creativity […]
Welcome to the world, baby boy
Pick one moment during which you felt most alive this year. The morning of October 14th, I got the call that my sister was in the hospital and in labor. While these calls, I’m sure, are always something of a surprise, this one definitely was because I had spoken to my dad only the night […]
1 word 4 2010
One Word. Encapsulate the year 2010 in one word. Explain why you’re choosing that word. Now, imagine it’s one year from today, what would you like the word to be that captures 2011 for you? When someone gets it at last, we exclaim, “FI-nally!” When we’re making our closing point, wrapping things up, the word […]
The Best Moments of My Life
What a weighty title, no? But as I started to write in my new gratitude journal, I realized the end product would, indeed, be a compilation of the best moments of my life on a daily basis. I was inspired to start this journal by Michelle Ward’s tweet linking me to this post by Trent […]
