Tag Archives: The Change

3 Ways I Grew Up Last Year: Leaping, Losing and Loving

I’ve recently decided that what I really want to do with my time is write.  Most of my life has involved doing something in the present in the hopes of doing something different in the future.  Does that make sense?  For example, I went to college for 4 years so that I could work as a wildlife biologist, which I did for 10 years.  More recently, I cleaned houses for several years so that I could pay my bills and support my business and blogging until those things supported themselves. This last plan didn’t quite work out. However, it’s just what we do as humans, always working and planning for the days to come.  Sometimes things work out as you prepared for them to be, and other times we can find ourselves on a completely different path from the initial direction.  There is nothing wrong with this way of living, but I am ready to approach life in a different way.  I want to live fully in the present for the sake of the present!

Stand in the truth of my purpose and passion, which is to make a difference with my words, with my writing!

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Miss Rumphius Strikes Again!

Have you ever read the childrens’ book, Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney?  Well, I have, many times.  This beautiful story was given to my son when he was just a baby by a sweet woman named Daphne.  She inscribed some loving words in it, and it became a part of our family, helping to shape my son into the big-hearted fellow that he is now.  That is the power of a book, it can imprint on your soul, strengthening your foundation.  In this book, we read and hear the message that a young girl’s grandfather shares with her, “You must do something to make the world more beautiful”.

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Gonna Rise Up, Turning Mistakes Into Gold!

Writing has always helped me thru the hard times.  At the age of 12, I remember rewriting the lyrics to “Mama’s Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys” by Waylon Jennings.  My version was titled “Bitches Don’t Let Your Puppies Grow Up to Be Guard Dogs”, and it was writing exercises like this that helped me keep my chin up thru some serious neglect when I was a young girl.

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