To just feel free….

I’m celebrating my birthday this week with some gentle hikes and deep breaths and easy togetherness with ones that I love and a gift I’m giving myself that is so simple (like this,  my word for the year) that it helps knead out the strain I sometimes carry over being another year into this thing that I sometimes…

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choosing to cherish…

“I miss Dolly,”  her faint voice trembled with over ninety years of love and loss, her tiny frame seated near my kneeling down as I planted the blooms that will keep her company in the living and letting go. Her goodbyes have been a long and steady stream, husband,  siblings,  family and friends …so many…

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