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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

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

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

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

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