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Don’t You Think Age Is Only A Number?

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Don’t You Think Age Is Only A Number?

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Jennifer Wolfe, a writer-teacher-mom, is dedicated to finding the extraordinary in the ordinary moments of life by thinking deeply, loving fiercely, and teaching audaciously. Read her stories on her blog, mamawolfe at jenniferwolfe.net.
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I was skimming Facebook today- because I’m on vacation and that’s what you do when you don’t have to wake up to an alarm, right? Sitting in my daughter’s college apartment, I saw a post from a mom who was at the beach with her three young children. It was a shot like many I take […]

Taking Life Stitch By Stitch – Anne Lamott

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Taking Life Stitch By Stitch – Anne Lamott

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“When you can step back at moments like these and see what is happening, when you watch people you love under fire or evaporating, you realize that the secret of life is patch patch patch. Thread your needle, make a knot, find one place on the other piece of torn cloth where you can make […]

The Gods Are Here, In This Almost Empty Nest

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The Gods Are Here, In This Almost Empty Nest

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“The Gods Are Here” This is no mountain But a house, No rock of solitude But a family chair, No wilds But life appearing As life anywhere domesticated, Yet I know the gods are here, And that if I touch them I will arise And take majesty into the kitchen.” ― Jean Toomer The Gods […]

Paying Attention

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Paying Attention

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Paying attention requires no equipment, no special clothes, no greens fees or personal trainers. You do not even have to be in particularly good shape. All you need is a body on this earth, willing to notice where it is, trusting that even something as small as a hazelnut can become an altar in this […]

5 Gratitudes For 51

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5 Gratitudes For 51

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Happy birthday to me! This is 51…a morning spent under the glitter of Christmas tree lights and flickering candles, a hot coffee and a cuddly pup by my side. I sit and wonder how to describe my gratitude about turning another year older, scribbling in my journal as a cold rainfall trickles down the gutters […]