Tag: love
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Love Takes Many Forms
Love takes many forms. Sometimes it looks like showing up for an aging parent. Sometimes it looks like sitting beside a friend during a difficult season. Sometimes it looks like a phone call, a hug, a listening ear, or simply making time for someone who matters. And sometimes love looks like recognizing every person’s right…
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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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Words That Stayed With Me: Matt Moberg and the Language of Awe
Sometimes a piece of writing arrives at exactly the right moment. Not because it solves anything. Not because it offers certainty. But because it reminds you that other people are standing in the same bewildering, beautiful experience of being alive. Recently I came across a long-form reflective prose poem by artist and writer Matt Moberg,…
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We Are All Meant to Shine
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Sometimes beginning again doesn’t look like a big moment—just a gentle return.
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Mojo Monday ~ Fun Deficit Disorder
Sometimes I can be really serious. I am sensitive to world events. My heart hurts when there are painful and sad things happening. I struggle with the big issues regarding injustice, violence against women and children, as well as hurtful actions against animals, which is why I adopted a vegan diet 6 years ago. I…
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Mojo Monday ~ Corita Kent
‘The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!’ ~ Albert Einstein Learn more about Corita Kent here.
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Mojo Monday ~ When I Loved Myself Enough
When I Loved Myself Enough began as one woman’s gift to the world, hand made by Kim McMillen and given to her friends. As word spread, its heartfelt honesty won it a growing following. The introduction to When I Loved Myself Enough by Kim McMillen begins this way: For many years I lived with a guarded heart. I…
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Mojo Monday ~ Love Letters
Love letters. I have written my fair share. As a long time lover of snail mail and years of living long distance from a few of my beaus I have spritzed letters with perfume and imprinted them with ruby red lipstick. Yet not all love letters need be of the traditional romantic genre. Throughout the…
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Mojo Monday ~ The Summer Day
“Tell me what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” The summer solstice took place this weekend and the above reading of the poem The Summer Day by Mary Oliver seemed so fitting for this weeks Mojo Monday. Ahhh summer. It may not be just like it was when…
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