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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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Good News

Posted in Family, God, Grace, How I still am a Pharisee, Learning, Losing a sibling, My sister, The afterlife, Well-being, Who am I?, Wonder, death, hope, joy, life, work, tagged , , , on October 27, 2008 | 15 Comments »

So I swiped my sister’s journals while I was home this weekend. I was looking for her CDs (that girl had more music than anyone I know…) and while I was rifling through her stuff (I’m getting used to it now–I don’t feel so much like a scavenger or an intruder) I found the journals. [...]

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Community & Grape Jam

Posted in 7435, Amazing friends, Church, Cleaning, Contentment, God, Grace, Houghton, NY, This rural life, Well-being, Why I should be Amish, Wonder, homemaking, hope, joy, life, work, tagged , , on October 19, 2008 | 10 Comments »

I spent Columbus Day making grape jam with my friend Sunshine. She had picked mountains of Concord grapes at a local vineyard, and since I had already been through the jam-making process once before with Industrious Betsy, I was up for another batch (actually 5 batches…). The kids had the day off of school, and [...]

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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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Roller Coaster

Posted in Amazing friends, Anxiety, Arkansas, Community, Freaking out, God, Grace, Houghton, Insecurity, Moving, NY, Ponderings, Sad, Sadie, This rural life, Transition, Well-being, Wonder, coffee, homemaking on August 7, 2008 | 9 Comments »

Roller Coaster is so cliche, but it fittingly describes my summer. When we first arrived in NY I felt this sense of home–a comfortable familiar even though we we’ve been away from this town for 11 years. I was in wonderland–a cool breezy land of green enchantment. The trees, of course, but also the people. [...]

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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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You Get What You Get (though you might throw a fit)*

Posted in God, Grace, Learning, Ponderings, Well-being, Wonder on April 21, 2008 | 13 Comments »

*Title change: I realized after a thoughtful comment from Marcy that my first title wasn’t quite accurate. So I changed it. Formally, it was “You Get What You Get and You Don’t Thow a Fit.” I think this one is more fitting to the post.
I went to Houghton, NY last weekend REALLY wishing to buy [...]

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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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