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Composed Heartache

Nov 19, 2013 By Elin Stebbins Waldal 15 Comments

Thanks to my friend Lois, over at Midlife at the Oasis, I learned about Jen Kehl’s, Twisted Mix Tape. Last week the theme was, Music that Tells a Story, I […]

Filed Under: Music, NaBloPoMo13 Tagged With: NaBloPoMo13, Twisted Mix Tape, Your Cheating Heart

Drive by Lunch

Nov 17, 2013 By Elin Stebbins Waldal 2 Comments

“I never look at the masses as my responsibility. I look at the individual. I can love only one person at a time. I can feed only one person at […]

Filed Under: NaBloPoMo13, On being a parent Tagged With: homelessness, hunger, Love, NaBloPoMo13, Thankful, Thanksgiving

The Fragility of it All

Nov 15, 2013 By Elin Stebbins Waldal 16 Comments

I’ll take your part When darkness comes And pain is all around Like a bridge over troubled water I will lay me down Like a bridge over troubled water I […]

Filed Under: NaBloPoMo13, On being a parent Tagged With: community, Love, nablopomo

Happy Birthday Dad

Nov 14, 2013 By Elin Stebbins Waldal 12 Comments

Today would have been my father’s 89th birthday. It doesn’t matter how many years pass, I miss him almost daily. As it happens, this morning finds me in Laguna Niguel, […]

Filed Under: Facing Fear, NaBloPoMo13 Tagged With: Dad, NaBloPoMo13, Speaking, Trauma Recovery

Veterans Day: My Mother the WASP

Nov 11, 2013 By Elin Stebbins Waldal 15 Comments

In December of 1943 my mother, who then went by, Elinor Fairchild, received a letter from Jaqueline Cochran, Director of Women Pilots of The War Department, letting her know that […]

Filed Under: Inspiration, NaBloPoMo13 Tagged With: Mother, Veteran's Day, WASP, Women Pilots, WWII

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

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

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