When we bought our house this fall there were hours of daydreaming about what our future house would look like. Sometimes the fantasies were so exciting that I could barely handle living in the moment. I kept saying to everyone that I wanted to wake up in February (ohhh how silly I was) and see […]
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Last week I wrote a post about Dread. It wasn’t too uplifting, but it was real. You know by now that I’m determined to be honest about this process of living. My history with seasonal affective disorder always renders October a trying month, yet each year I am baffled by the crumbling of the spirit,
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When we moved to Northampton in 2007 I had two months of yoga teaching under my belt. I knew a handful of people in the Pioneer Valley and had almost no money and no prospects other than a Wednesday night yoga class at the Hampshire Regional YMCA. I didn’t really know what I wanted out
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Every year I’ve lived in the Pioneer Valley, I’ve had a Community Supported Agriculture Farm Share. Over the years I’ve learned the differences in types of cabbages, the various colors that tomatoes, carrots, beans and beets come in and I’ve learned the proper way to pick and store dozens of vegetables and fruits. Over the
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This whole week, okay, I’m lying. This whole summer has been about the process of moving into my new office. If it wasn’t looking for a place, than it was contemplating what I wanted out of a space. Once I had the space, it was about picking out furniture or contemplating materials that were safe
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Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an orientation of character which determines the relatedness of a person to the world as a whole, not toward one “object” of love. If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to the rest of his fellow men,
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In the fall of 2006 I started reading, studying and vaguely practicing the Law of Attraction and exploring the philosophic concepts of attracting Abundance. The Law of Attraction was quite easy to believe when I was on the brink of disaster and could see light spots amidst true darkness. Somehow I tapped into some universal
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Today’s guest post comes from a local friend and writer, Leah Dunham. She is sharing her all too common story of her postpartum period. Thanks Leah, for the courage to tell your story. As a child I often imagined myself as a capable mother. My sister and I played “house” with our cabbage patch dolls for
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Today’s guest writer Amanda Kingsley is a local birth advocate, doula, and birth photographer who recently jumped ship to a new career. Seeing her thriving in her new job I knew she had to write a guest post about the process and where she ended up. Here you have it. I’ve had a lot of
Finding Your Purpose and Your Passion in Your Career (Guest Post) Read More »
For the last few weeks I have been blogging about my spring of sickness. While it was happening I was dumbfounded that I could reach that level of sickness. Now I see that the weakness I was assuming, may actually have been strength. I now believe that my body needed a pause. It wasn’t until
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