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Now This Is The NY I Remember…

Posted in Contentment, Houghton, NY, Snow, The outdoors, This rural life, We're not in Arkansas anymore..., Wonder, joy, tagged , on November 10, 2008 | 5 Comments »

See header picture. I took it off of my balcony this morning. And so it begins.
Time to get out my cross country skis…

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Reprieve

Posted in Calling, Community, Contentment, God, Grace, Grief, Houghton, Learning, Losing a sibling, Motivation, My sister, NY, Ponderings, Procrastination, Running, Surreal, The outdoors, This rural life, Transition, Well-being, Wonder, death, hope, joy, life, tagged , , , , , on October 9, 2008 | 9 Comments »

I started running after my sister died. Well, running is a little ambitious to describe it. Let’s just say someone walking at a very brisk pace could lap me repeatedly. I always thought I hated running, but somehow–right now–it is the only thing that seems to make sense to me. When I’m running, I feel [...]

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Navigation

Posted in Family, Grace, Losing a sibling, My sister, Sad, Solitude, Surreal, The outdoors, Transition, death on September 6, 2008 | 12 Comments »

My little sister Cindy and I stood looking into Tate’s casket on Wednesday night and asked each other, ‘Is this it? I mean, have we actually accepted this? Are we still in denial? Shock?’ Because after the initial horrible-ness of seeing her laid out–actually dead–in the funeral home, we sort of got used to it. [...]

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Ode to the Trees

Posted in Contentment, Houghton, Moving, NY, Ponderings, Providence, Solitude, Surreal, The outdoors, This rural life, Well-being, Wonder on July 14, 2008 | 6 Comments »

The cataclysmic event of moving across the country and settling into new routines, new church, new friends, new temperatures, new LIFE–leaves me with so much to say I don’t know where to start. So I’ll begin with a word:
GRATEFUL.
Grateful for so much. But first for the trees. I forgot about trees. I forgot what it’s [...]

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Movin’ In

Posted in Community, Contentment, God, Grace, Houghton, Moving, Providence, The outdoors, Well-being, Wonder on June 17, 2008 | 8 Comments »

A few pictures of our journey so far:
(when we finally found the camera!)

I love our new house. I call it The Treehouse. My favorite thing to do is sit out on the back deck. I am decompressing here. I can’t believe how peaceful, how rested, I feel. Of course it’s maddening to have all of [...]

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Too Much Too Soon?

Posted in Family, Sadie, The outdoors, Yikes! on March 20, 2008 | 6 Comments »

This morning I was feeling better than I have all week. I was like, maybe I’m not even sick anymore. So Dan and Sadie and I trooped off to a local State Park and frolicked in the sunshine. Dan and I were kicking a soccer ball around and I was running and then suddenly I [...]

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Signs of Spring

Posted in Arkansas, Contentment, God, Grace, Solitude, The outdoors, Well-being, Wonder on February 29, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Today I sat out on my back porch and put my face to the sun. I heard the birds chirp: robins, finches–even a woodpecker in the distance. I took off my shoes and sunk (sank?) my feet in our damp back yard–pushing down mole holes with my toes and smelling the fresh earth. I [...]

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Blue Sky

Posted in Arkansas, Contentment, Ponderings, The outdoors, Well-being, Wonder on February 18, 2008 | 6 Comments »

Before we moved to Arkansas, we lived in Western New York. Not far from snowy Buffalo, NY, we had what felt like an eight month winter. We’d get a big storm in October, then snow, sleet, snow, then it would be below zero; Christmas, New Year, Valentine’s Day; MARCH…snow, three feet of snow, cloudy, [...]

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Snow Day

Posted in Family, Motherhood, Ponderings, Sadie, The outdoors, Well-being, Wonder on February 1, 2008 | 11 Comments »

Sadie has this book called “The Little Snowflake.” It shows how snowflakes have six sides and are all different. Sadie asked me if I had ever seen a ‘real’ snowflake. She was wondering if the drawings in her book were fiction or non-fiction. (New terms she learned in Kindergarten…:) I looked at her and realized [...]

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Christmas in Pennsylvania

Posted in Motherhood, Ponderings, Sadie, Silly, The outdoors, Well-being on December 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Merry Christmas! We safely arrived in the Pennsylvania Wilds on the 22nd. We did the 20 or so hours in two days and had a “Hotel Adventure” in Richmond Indiana. (Hotel Adventure is the term we use to keep Sadie from realizing that two days in the car can sometimes be like the seventh level of [...]

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