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Tag Archives: Kindness
Taking the Birthday Week
It was the first birthday after a potentially life threatening and definitely life-altering illness, where the concept and approach to birthdays changed. I was never one for making a big deal about my birthday. I think I was maybe eight … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged a present to myself, birthday, birthday week, cancer, celebrations, Kindness, self celebration
12 Comments
Same Time Next Year
For about the last seventeen years or so, my family and I have been invited to a New Year’s Day brunch at the home of a wonderful couple. They tend to invite a core of their same friends year after … Continue reading
Posted in Aging, Hearing Impaired, Uncategorized, Winter
Tagged aging, annual brunch, annual party, capuchin monkey, connections, friendships, Kindness, new year's day
5 Comments
The Sedum Project
I make a visit to the grave about twice a year. As expected, the cemetery is a quiet, green place that sits below open skies and shaded lanes lined with old trees. Officially, two grandparents and my mother now rest there. Unofficially, my … Continue reading
Posted in Friends, Gardening, Uncategorized
Tagged Family, family rituals, Flowers, gravestones, graveyards, johnny appleseed, Kindness, perennials, rituals, sedum, tending a grave, visiting the cemetery
4 Comments
Just One Small Thing
The past couple of weeks seem to be especially dragging, both in a physical and emotional way. They could be connected to each other. Those pinpoints of notable stress and probably a little bit of the winter blues hanging around … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged chai, Kindness, kindness, morning coffee, pay it forward, relationships
2 Comments
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