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Thank you to everyone who came along on this the trip of a lifetime.
Thank you to everyone who came along on this the trip of a lifetime. Whether you followed the entire 3 months and 1200+ miles, or jumped aboard toward the end, I truly appreciated your company, questions, concerns, and encouragement. And for those who aren’t using Facebook (good for you!), thank you for reaching out with phone calls, texts, and emails. It was comforting to know you were thinking of us and
Betwixt and Between
“We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned to accept the life that is waiting for us.” -Joseph Campbell We’re living in a “liminal time”— a moment on the threshold. The familiar is missing, their replacements not yet fully formed. We’re suspended between the year just passed and the one just beginning, between decades, flanked
Imagine You are a Boat
This past Spring, we sold our beautiful old wooden sailboat, Meander. She was a 44”, 1950 Alden Cutter – the prettiest boat in the harbor. She had been left for dead and somehow Fred saw her inner beauty. For the next 9+ years, he lovingly restored her from stem to stern. She is a sight to behold. We spent summer vacations sailing Meander on
What Grace Looks Like
“I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.” -Anne Lamott For the first year and a half of her life, Grace was... not loved. We received a call from a friend who knew we’d just lost our precious black labby and Gracie burst into
