How Much Have You Grown
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How much have grown this year? How do you know? When the kids were young we had a big poster that had a tree where we could mark their growth. (I wonder where that went…) On birthdays and other occasions we would mark their height and compare their growth to their past markings and their…
Zoomies
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Let’s have some fun. Grab your phone and open your photo app. Look through the photos you’ve collected over the last thirty days. Choose one. Look at it. If you need to turn your phone so it fills your screen, do that. What do you see? Next, zoom in SOME. Move the picture around. Look…
Q3LC Cohort 9
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On Monday of this week, we celebrated the completion of Cohort 9 in Quadrant 3 Leadership Coach Certification. This crew took the double-time course, completing ten full weeks in just the five of July. Graduates of Cohort 9 span the US east coast to west coast, from southern states to northern. These amazing individuals continued…
Capacity Connection
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Recently I spoke to a dear friend and she shared with me that she is learning to live within her capacity. The first step to this is noticing what her capacity is for each day, and living with grace and acceptance in those boundaries. What this released for her was being able design her expectations…
Writer’s Digest – A Confession
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Confession. I have subscribed to Writer’s Digest magazine for over 5 years. I have read MAYBE six issues. Yet, every time renewal rolls around, I quickly send my payment. When the newest issue arrived last week, I hardly looked at. Still on the kitchen table, it will eventually get moved to one of the many…
A Tale of Two Trainings
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One of the happiest achievements in my life was going to the USSR as a junior in high school (1990). For almost three weeks, a group of forty StrangersBecoming Family from across the northeast US explored places and met people on the other side of the Cold Divide. The whole experience – from fundraising to…
Anthropormorphic Sun
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It’s been a busy start to the summer in our family. Our youngest was home for a month, and last week returned to the northeast to work at a summer camp in Vermont. Our middle is getting ready to go visit our oldest in TX next week. And our oldest is making plans to move…
Wilting Basil
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We bought a basil plant at the grocery store last week. I can’t remember what recipe A. was going to make for dinner, but the fresh basil leaves – as they always do – played a big role in the dish tasting wonderful and the house being filled with an aroma that made my stomach…
I spy
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Let’s go on a treasure hunt! Set some time aside over the week. Set a destination (home, kitchen, park, mall, museum – wherever you like). And grab your phone. Here is your list. Something redSomething translucentSomething shinySomething dustySomething yellowSomething sharpA collectionSomething that holds a memoryA favorite wordSomething blueSomething that makes you smile Now create a…
Charting Creativity
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The ongoing project in my personal world is creating order from the files on my computer. Not only do I have the ‘regular’ sorts of files like warranties and financial records, I have have 24 years of poorly stewarded digital photos, and about 18 years of homeschooling work and records. Let me give you a…
