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Closing & Opening, Part 1 – A look back at 2011

(To read part 2, a look ahead to 2012, click here.) Well, 2011, you’ve been one helluva year, haven’t you? *shakes head* I still can’t believe this year even happened. So much of my life changed. I feel like one cycle of my life has ended and a new one has begun. A decade ago, [...]

Time to assimilate 2011

This has been one huge, crazy, scary year. It’s been amazing and terrifying and difficult all at the same time. I have had moments of blissful joy and moments of gut-wrenching sadness. I have grieved. I have dreamed. I have worked, hard, for what I want. And now as the year wraps up, I’m cranky. [...]

Processing, processing, pattern.

Overwhelming sadness this morning. It sits on my chest, like a heaviness over my heart. Lots of stuff coming out. One shift triggers another, which triggers another. It’s like playing a painful game of dominoes, except my heart is what’s being crushed at the end. It’s too much. I’m finding it very difficult to face [...]