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therapy, raisins, what have you.
A Tuesday view, to set the mood. So yesterday evening I got home and melted into the couch, feeling like the energy had been completely drained from my body. Like my insides had crumpled in on...
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launder them linens.
Q: Is there anything lovelier than freshly laundered bed linens? A: No.The arsenal.But there's lots of things lovelier than laundering them yourself-- unless you are one of those lucky kings of the...
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for sunday:
Wesley Bird print available at Society 6.I need to remember that there is a difference between the two. And that it's the wandering, as uncomfortable as it may be, that leads you somewhere true....
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Last Saturday night we went to a fundraiser for Kevin's school, and I am surprised I went because for all of last week--and now this one-- I was in full-on isolation mode for reasons that have yet to...
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a rebuttal (and a reminder).
The previous post: I can already hear my therapist's voice in my head, telling me I need to be more compassionate with myself... so here goes.This is one of the houses from Tumbleweed Tiny House Co.--...
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scenes from the homefront.
For today, a look at what's been going on lately at the old rebuildery...Bookish stamps for bookish people + a pretty flower one, for good measure. A spring break celebration far more dignified than...
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for sunday:
Goethe quote found on coté writes, but original source is unknown. Probably no less than two years ago, I wrote a list of major categories in my life and ranked them by importance (at the advice of a...
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icon: kate spade
You also can't be afraid of failure, because that's the thing that can scare the hell out of you — "Oh, remember Kate Spade, they thought they were really great?" I mean, shit, we're just doing what we...
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updates, with jazz hands!
(The jazz hands mean it's exciting.)Let's start with the most exciting, shall we? I don't remember exactly how I stumbled across Sarah von Bargen's blog, Yes and Yes, sometime last year, but I do know...
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something wicked this way comes...
Or just something different, really. Usually my change-fearing brain would equate different with wicked, but for the last two days I've been all about making a change in our living room (which I...
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for sunday:
Thoughts from Muir and Emerson on renewal of body, of soul, of vision... Image from Slim Paley&So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes. It shall answer the endless inquiry of the...
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...in which i say priorities several times.
So today I feel like I should talk about how restful and restorative Easter Sunday was, especially after I posted those Muir and Emerson quotes. But because I like you, I'll tell you that I had a total...
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home decorating for the anxiety prone.
Using mock-ups and mood boards to allay decorating indecisiveness... This morning I noticed that one of the search keyword phrases someone used to get to my blog was "home decorating for the anxiety...
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...wherein i tape a butcher knife to a broom.
Subtitled The Worst Morning Ever: a Hyperbolic Springtime Tale. AKA The Rebuildery Lets Me Down.So it's a super beautiful day in Chicago, probably the warmest we've had all year. What does one do on a...
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how i know it's spring.
Al Roker's suit told me so. P.S. Close second: BIRDS flying around my bedroom.It wasn't like this. Cinderella from here. Thanks, Jean!
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the surgery.
Well, holy cow. I write to you today wearing one of Kevin's shirts that's misbuttoned so the tail on the left is a good six inches lower than the right, with a travel pillow propping up my head, and a...
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a rebuildery revolution.
The Machine, you guys. The Machine. The Machine has made a new woman out of me.The way I'm leading into this is sounding all sorts of creepy, so let me backtrack and set this up differently.I really...
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for sunday:
Tried to find the original source; this was the closest I got. I'm actually starting to be able to hear "things will be okay" and not immediately come up with fifty reasons to counter that sentiment...
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sweet teeth.
Because it wouldn't be honest to say I have just one tooth, really. I have sweet teeth aplenty. (And several savory molars.)But... Can I start out by saying sorry I've checked in so sporadically? Part...
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for sunday:
In honor of the end of one of my favorite shows, this Sunday's quote comes from Pam's last talking head during The Office finale: "I didn’t watch the whole documentary. After a few episodes it was too...
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blogger, interrupted.
Well, since I already quit my day job, I might be wise to heed the unicorn's counsel.Unattributable, in the way so many gems are in the wild west of Pinterest. Please contact me if this is yours. My...
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shaking it up.
Quite some time ago, I let on that I was getting bored with the living room. I think it was the effect of seeing all the photos from our AT tour last December. It felt like, okay, that's done, what's...
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for sunday.
I don't know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass, how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,...
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sleep to dream.
Mother and Child on a Couch, James Abbott McNeill WhistlerIt's summer, right? So I've obviously been eating a lot of watermelon and watching far too many hours of backseasons of True Blood. But I've...
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words.
I haven't been able to put words to much of anything lately. There's nothing dreadfully wrong, but nothing feels marvelously right. I feel like I'm middling, like my progress is stalled. I make plans,...
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