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Sunrise, Music and the Day Ahead

Nov 10, 2013 By Elin Stebbins Waldal 6 Comments

Watching the sun, Watching it come Watching it come up, Over the rooftops… Cloudy and warm, Maybe a storm You can never quite tell, From the morning… And it’s going […]

Filed Under: For the Love of Nature, Marriage, NaBloPoMo13 Tagged With: Love, Marriage, NaBloPoMo13

Fall Day

Nov 9, 2013 By Elin Stebbins Waldal 2 Comments

The great lesson…is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one’s daily life. In one’s neighbors, friends, and family, in one’s back yard.–Abraham […]

Filed Under: Life Lessons, NaBloPoMo13 Tagged With: life lessons, NaBloPoMo13, quotes

Garden Refuge

Nov 8, 2013 By Elin Stebbins Waldal 24 Comments

There are images I lean on as if they were a cane when life and schedules seek to untether me from the essence of who I am. In those moments, […]

Filed Under: Gardening, Healing from Trauma, NaBloPoMo13 Tagged With: Gardening, Healing, Letting go, NaBloPoMo13

A Text Message, The Voice, and James

Nov 5, 2013 By Elin Stebbins Waldal 16 Comments

Last night while fretting obsessing over a formatting issue on a blog post I was trying to publish for my website, I received a text message from Jimmy. He was […]

Filed Under: Marriage, Music, NaBloPoMo13 Tagged With: James Wolpert, Music, Technology, The Voice

Family Portrait

Nov 4, 2013 By Elin Stebbins Waldal 12 Comments

Yesterday, while we had the entire Backyard Playgroup together again, we had our family portrait taken. The daylight hours, having been pushed back to standard, bent long rays of gold […]

Filed Under: NaBloPoMo13, On being a parent Tagged With: childhood, Love, Motherhood

Message from the Pantry

Nov 3, 2013 By Elin Stebbins Waldal 18 Comments

In March of 2011, the universe sent me a rather messy message via my pantry. Last Friday I got sick. And I mean the sort of sick that found me […]

Filed Under: All things Writing, Life Lessons, NaBloPoMo13 Tagged With: Inner Voice, NaBloPoMo13, Self-Care, Sickness, Writing

Writing in the Internet Age

Nov 2, 2013 By Elin Stebbins Waldal 4 Comments

In her new book, Still Writing, Dani Shaprio, shares countless beads of wisdom for writers, among them this is one of my favorites: “Sit. Stay there. It’s hard—I know just […]

Filed Under: Just Write, NaBloPoMo13 Tagged With: Dani Shapiro, NaBloPoMo13, social media, Still Writing, Writing

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