Category: Family
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We Grow Memories 🌻🍁🎃
“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” — L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables I’ve always loved October. The changing colors, the pumpkins, the Halloween decorations, and those first hints of cooler weather after a long, hot Northern California summer. October has always been an especially meaningful month in…
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The Ordinary Work of Love
Sometimes a railing is love. Love is often portrayed in grand gestures, but much of love looks like errands, appointments, grocery shopping, cooking, phone calls, paperwork, driving, and waiting rooms. It looks like taking notes during doctor’s visits, holding a hand, giving a hug, and listening with patience. Sometimes one of the greatest expressions of…
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Mojo Monday ~ Family
“The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another’s desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that…
