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Uncategorized January 18, 2025

Just doing what I can do

Those familiar questions again… “Do you work?” “What do you do?” These questions trigger an awareness that There are a […]

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Uncategorized January 18, 2025

Choosing how to see

Choosing how to see I want to see my story from my own perspective, or from the perspective of someone […]

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Uncategorized October 5, 2024

Labels

Different Labels A reflection on learnings from Uni classes, and personal experience, about the functions, effects of, and usefulness (or […]

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Uncategorized July 5, 2024

Reflections on homemaking

Reflections on homemaking and making myself at home “What do you do? Do you work?” So many assumptions about the […]

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Uncategorized June 1, 2024

Reflecting on the loss of a community of faith

Reflecting on the loss of a community of faith I feel as though I’ve lost all sense of the sacred […]

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Uncategorized March 11, 2024

God our Father, and Mother

God our Father, and Mother? This journey started when I asked the Holy Spirit to give me a picture of […]

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Uncategorized January 5, 2024

Why does it matter what I think?

They said: “What do you want?” “It sounds like you don’t know who you are.” “You need to figure out […]

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Poems, Uncategorized July 1, 2023

What to do with the longing

What to do with the longing… I find that certain experiences lead to an acute, heightened awareness of longing I […]

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Uncategorized June 30, 2023

Surrendering

I Surrender: My claim to superiority My need to be right Fear of failure My fear My avoidance of pain […]

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Uncategorized November 10, 2022

A country girl, who am I?

A country girl I’m a country girl stuck in the city I was born in the city, but as soon […]

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Poems, Uncategorized September 9, 2022

Learning how to dance

Learning how to dance This is not about literally learning how to dance, (although it could be), it’s more a […]

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Uncategorized September 8, 2022

Just a bunch of flowers

Just a bunch of flowers I haven’t written a blog post in a while. It’s not that I haven’t been […]

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