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I recently watched a video from a TEDx event from last December.  It featured a makeup artist/actress who talked about the women who have sat in her chair and their comments about their looks; comments about how plain, or ugly or fat or defective they looked followed by apologies for having so little for herContinue reading “365 Day Project-Day 191-Try”

Heard a necessary message tonight on Spiritual Disciplines.  Much grace abounded throughout the talk and it was good.  My takeaway from the talk was that disciplines are not the end, but the means to the end, more of God.  I also saw a trailer for an upcoming movie about a man that I have admiredContinue reading “365 Day Project-Day 190-Jesus”

Crazy day at work and I’m playing my Loreena McKennitt station on Pandora to help alleviate the stress.  This song comes on and suddenly I’m swept away to another place, sheltered from the storm that would seek to break me, bend me to its will and evil devices.  And I am refreshed and consoled. AsContinue reading “365 Day Project-Day 189-Lough Erin Shore”

Train has a new album coming out in September.  Here’s the first single, just released.   

Great are you, Lord, and greatly to be praised!  

It has been a very full day, this birthday of mine.  I’m now left with minutes to select a song and I will fall back on music that fills my house most weekends.  This song seemed appropriate because time is marked with birthdays and anniversaries and seasons.  Our times are in His hands.  

Another lovely 4th of July spent with my daughter’s friends and family in SoCal.  The day started early at the Santa Clarita parade, wound its way through the in-laws' community pool where the boys swam to their hearts' content and then wound down at a friend’s house full of guests where we ate and talkedContinue reading “365 Day Project-Day 185-America”

Heard this on the radio today and it made me think of the miles I’ve logged traveling to see my baby boys.  Having fun with them this July 4th weekend and thinking I’d log ten thousand miles to see them.  

Spent a lovely day in Santa Cruz with one of my sisters.  We started, as usual, parking up by the lighthouse on West Cliff Drive and then walking to the wharf at the Boardwalk and dining at Stagnaros.  I enjoyed a lovely plate of fried calamari while my sister dined on shrimp louie.   And thereContinue reading “365 Day Project-Day 183-Scotch and Chocolate”

Getting ready and looking forward to a long weekend.  Tomorrow Santa Cruz, then Thursday I’m SoCal bound.  Grandbabies here I come.  Excited to go where the wild things are, the wildness and energy I call my boys.  Maseo is the wildness and Uriah is the energy… or is it the other way around.  As I’mContinue reading “365 Day Project-Day 182-The Rakers”