Posts Tagged ‘freedom’
Whisper a little word….
It’s a new day with a fresh batch of lines on another page and I’m grateful for the beginnings we carve out in the long stretches of time to mark and remember and celebrate. Celebrate….my one little word for the last 365. I called it a challenge from the start and it didn’t disappoint:) I…
Read MoreThe free we’re born to be……
She was born to fly, but her bright wings got snatched, used to patch broken things. So she crumples up small, sliding down under the coming up short, pushed like putty into despairing places so the holes in their souls don’t show. But even though it may stop the squeak and shudder when she flattens out low, her life…
Read MoreWindows and walls…..
I want my life to be an open window like the Irregardless of my childhood, an artisan eatery in my hometown that became a sort of soul tattoo and warmed my spirit like a cold frame until my roots could grapple into roomier ground. Wintertime sunshine poured through tall, rough hewn windows lined with green and growing…
Read Moregot to be free….
To be free…..this is the thing, top of my list……even love needs freedom to thrive, freedom to grow my own garden, learn from my own mistakes, choose my own path, decide in my own heart how I worship, build a family, make a life and a living, to say my own strong “no’s” and grin…
Read More52 candles….
It’s my birthday this week and I’m plunking 52 fresh candles in my lemon blueberry cheesecake, deep down ridiculously glad to be alive in 52 (new) glad and grateful ways: ~for fresh skies and new trails to hike, ~the soul sweetness of being with safe people, ~the resistance that enables us to fly, ~the grace…
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