As you know, this year started with some sad news for me and my family. My aunt passed away in January and it definitely rocked me to the core. I’ve been thinking a lot about my aunt and also about how my cousin and my mom are coping with this...
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photo credit: Razvan Mirel via Unsplash I don’t really have a process on how to come up with my guiding word for the new year; it is usually less ‘active thinking’ but rather an opening of the mind to see what word floats in naturally at the end of each...
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I know. Could I be any more cliché with my word choice for this new year when the world keeps falling apart all around us? I first wanted to pick “hope”, which seemed even more cliché, but since hope and trust are closely related and trust seems a little bit...
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As every year, I struggle a bit with the start of a brand new year, a brand new slate and the pressure to set goals and resolutions and have it all mapped out on January, 1. That usually never happens for me and it’s been taking me a while to...
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Photo by @missnjc on Unsplash I know, I am late with this. If you’ve been reading my blog for a while, you know that I’ve picked a guiding word for the year for a few years now, but sometimes the word comes easier than other times. (Here are the words...
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{*} Goodbye 2017, hello 2018. In true new year’s fashion, I am jumping on the One Little Word® bandwagon again, but it’s has taken me a little bit to pick a new guiding word 2018. If you’ve followed along, I’ve been picking a guiding word for the year for a few years, but...
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Hi and hello, welcome to a new year. Goodbye 2016, hello 2017. Aaand… the new year is already 5 days old. I’m telling you, someone must be flipping the pages on that page-a-day calendar fast on purpose. In true new year’s fashion, I am jumping on the One Little Word®...
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Goodbye 2015, hello 2016. So, here’s my first post of 2016, finally. Don’t you love how everything seems to slow down some during the last week of the year (between Christmas and New Year’s), only to speed up again with rapid acceleration once New Year’s Day rolls around? I mean,...
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My idea of a perfect start into any new year? Bundled up in freezing temperatures somewhere in the snowy mountains … as you can tell from my Cheshire Cat grin, it was a good start. This trip to the mountain? That is a perfect representation of the word that I...
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