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Been writing my story in a diary since I was eleven. I created my pathway through adult life partially from looking back at what I had written in my diaries, seeking what I might learn. I enjoy family, meditation, nature, the arts. 2014 was the most stressful, sad year of my life. 2018 and since then finds me moving with more comfort into the life of a widowed person, becoming more competent, more peaceful.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.
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December 23, 2016 in The Richness of Each Day, December 2016
As I review my day, the richness in it was the visit by a monarch butterfly when I was in the garden soaking up sun to enrich my Vitamin D intake.
December 22, 2016 in The Richness of Each Day, December 2016
I had a moment that was rich and uniquely the moment of the day, but I have forgotten it. Maybe the moment to record is the one in which I found myself crying into my pillow at 4 a.m. It is a ...
December 21, 2016 in The Richness of Each Day, December 2016
The richness in this day only cost about $8. Soft, warm slippers from the local remaindered items store. When I tried them on for exact size in the store, I actually sighed. I was gloriously h...
December 20, 2016 in The Richness of Each Day, December 2016
Today’s richness may seem shallow to others, but to me, it was a miracle. It occurred as I was getting a wonderful short bob, cut by a woman who listened to my observations and took care of e...
December 19, 2016 in The Richness of Each Day, December 2016
I am trying hard to find the absolute rich experience in this day of shopping all around town. I think it was the moment I saw that the yard was wet and that about a 1/2 inch of rain fell last n...
December 18, 2016 in The Richness of Each Day, December 2016
The part of today that felt rich to me was when I walking outside early and heard mourning doves calling. When I lived in this city before that was the prevalent bird call, and I love the softne...
December 17, 2016 in The Richness of Each Day, December 2016
The richest experience of this day was to look at the photo album Kermit put together from pictures of his growing up years, collected by his Aunt and parents. He did this when he had stage 4 ca...
December 16, 2016 in The Richness of Each Day, December 2016
The richness in this day was seeing the panels hanging beautifully in the dining area and four more roman shades in the kitchen. It was a quiet richness of observation and satisfaction. Not one...
December 15, 2016 in The Richness of Each Day, December 2016
Having help to hang the paintings we have collected throughout the years and seeing most of them, especially the ones I could not hang by myself, now, on the walls in this perfectly new setting p...
December 13, 2016 in The Richness of Each Day, December 2016
The richness of my day has to have been the laughter at myself that occurred when I was driving the car and internally sort of musically or at least with some rhythm skimming though a list of the...
December 12, 2016 in The Richness of Each Day, December 2016
Iron Mountain is one of the highest points of peninsular Florida, estimated to be 295 feet (90 m) above sea level: Standing there, where I could see from the cliff’s edge for 35 miles, contribute...
December 11, 2016 in The Richness of Each Day, December 2016
Listening to a beautiful soprano sing Oh Holy Night as I sat with other citizens of my little city, listening to the Christmas presentation by the local volunteer symphony: this my richness in t...
December 10, 2016 in The Richness of Each Day, December 2016
The richness in this day was when I walked the children’s bike trail that runs behind my house, and saw the city’s water processing plant office and the back of a church with a huge yard where a ...
December 9, 2016 in The Richness of Each Day, December 2016
The Richness of this day – Standing in front of a taller, wider mirror than that one that had hung there before in what is a narrow space and realizing how the new mirror, its size and its ligh...
December 8, 2016 in The Richness of Each Day, December 2016
Two entries today! I just realized, and this is the most fully appreciate richness in this day, that at 75 I can enter each stage of life but one as I watch a film or read a novel because I have ...
December 7, 2016 in The Richness of Each Day, December 2016
I read this in a biography of Max Perkins…Thomas Wolfe was quoted having written that when a man (a person, I’d say) travels he needs certain things and among them is “a place for the heart to re...
December 6, 1016 in The Richness of Each Day, December 2016
After more than a6 weeks of drought, rain fell today, slowly and with starts and stops. I walked around in a drizzle in my side garden this afternoon as if I were a general inspecting my troops....
December 5, 2016 in The Richness of Each Day, December 2016
Finding time to empty several boxes that yielded my cookbooks that had been missing since I moved, then taking time to find a set of never before attempted recipes for the rest of the month.
December 4 in The Richness of Each Day, December 2016
The spectacular little quarter moon in the dark sky, unmasked by clouds and accompanied by two bright stars in different positions near the quarter moon - seen from my private back yard.
December 3, 2016 in The Richness of Each Day, December 2016
The richest moments today came as I stood at the windows watching elementary school children returning home, avoiding using the years old sidewalk across the street from my yard and joyously boun...