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New Name for Baby

Sep 27, 2014 By Elin Stebbins Waldal 12 Comments

What happens when you name your child, then change your mind about the name. Do you give your baby a new name? For some, the answer is yes. In my […]

Filed Under: Life Lessons Tagged With: Changing a baby's name, Namesake

Perspective

Feb 2, 2014 By Elin Stebbins Waldal Leave a Comment

“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”–Marcus Aurelius  

Filed Under: Life Lessons Tagged With: Perspective

Creating Harmony

Jan 22, 2014 By Elin Stebbins Waldal 5 Comments

It’s January 22, 2014 and I may be among the few on the planet who haven’t yet caught the “New Year’s Resolution” fever—meaning I have not written goals, ambitions, promises, […]

Filed Under: Life Lessons Tagged With: Harmony, life lessons, New Year's Resolutions

Renewed Faith in Humanity at Sunset

Dec 11, 2013 By Elin Stebbins Waldal 17 Comments

  There is enough outrage out there to make any single one of us not want to push back the covers and face the day. The kind of stuff that […]

Filed Under: Living Tagged With: Bait and Outrage, Civility, Faith in Humanity, nature, Sunsets

A Look at Healing

Nov 27, 2013 By Elin Stebbins Waldal 2 Comments

I want to live where soul meets body and let the sun wrap its arms around me, and bathe my skin in water cool and cleansing, and feel what it’s […]

Filed Under: Life Lessons, NaBloPoMo13 Tagged With: Healing, life lessons, nablopomo, Self-Love, self-talk

Nature’s Bounty

Nov 25, 2013 By Elin Stebbins Waldal 7 Comments

The Promise of a New Day.                 The way the air smells after the rain.  .               […]

Filed Under: For the Love of Nature, Living, NaBloPoMo13 Tagged With: Grateful, NaBloPoMo13, nature

5 Truths, 1 Lie

Nov 20, 2013 By Elin Stebbins Waldal 10 Comments

I am feeling super lazy and borderline cranky  this morning…clearly that has carried over into this afternoon evening. I simply do not feel like writing today. And even though I […]

Filed Under: Living, NaBloPoMo13 Tagged With: 1 Lie, 5 Truths, Moodiness, NaBloPoMo13

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