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Burned out garage viewed through a window with divided glass

Not a Pretty Picture

Nope, it's not a pretty picture. Put a smoke detector in your garage. I'm assuming you already have one in your home!
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A curve in the road, next to an evergreen forest

Looking for the Signs

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It’s not always easy to know if you’ve found the right path, especially at the beginning. It helps to pause. Look around. Listen. Listen to the surroundings. Listen to your gut. Breathe.
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Crimson red rose bud, with green foliage in the background

New Beginnings

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I’m beginning to think that no matter how old we grow, we keep on having new opportunities to look at ourselves differently. What parts of ourselves have disappeared? What might we plant to nurture new growth?
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White cloth on a wooden loom, with a shuttle resting on the cloth

Learning and Doing

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Every now and then, I run out of new classes to take in a particular subject. Not because there aren’t more classes out there.
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Teal fabric with white stitching on sewing machine

Warming Up

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It’s not big and dramatic, but it does create movement—physically, emotionally, creatively. If you’re feeling stuck, and would like some help moving forward, here are some possibilities
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Colorful wool fibers, more or less heart-shaped, bordered on the left with blue and on the right with yellow-gold

Immersion

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I tend to like distractions, otherwise known as bright and shiny objects. Immersion feels like something different.
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Swooping blue curves with lighter blue bubbles

Keep On Movin’

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Of course, in those literal bumper cars, you’re not going to get anywhere other than in that enclosed space. In life, who knows?
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Yellow and orange sunset, behind silhouette of trees

Another Light

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An opportunity to pay attention to my body and myself, with Mia spotlighting things I might never have noticed otherwise.
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Purple hand-knit cardigan - a work in progress

Distractions

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Maybe it’s curiosity. Maybe it’s procrastination—or avoidance? I’m not really sure what to call it, but I do find myself easily distracted by a wide variety of interests.
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Chocolate chocolate chip cookies on a wooden surface

Polite or Kind?

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If nothing else, maybe we should make some of Dorie Greenspan's World Peace Cookies and share them generously.
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Boy blowing up an orange balloon

Time to Exhale

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Try it when you’re feeling pretty good. See how you like it, how you feel afterwards. And, maybe, just maybe, you’ll find it useful when things aren’t going so well. When you need a quick reset. it might do you good and help you too.
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By Way Of…

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It seemed like a silly thing to do. I could have put the mitts in the mail. But I’d just finished them and the cold weather was starting. Here in this part of Texas, the cold doesn’t last very long—at least not usually. I wanted these little mitts to be useful, before the wether turned or the mittens got lost—whichever might come first.
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