by xandyblog | Aug 29, 2016 | inspire
“adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.” :: Ralph Waldo Emerson...
by xandyblog | Aug 3, 2016 | create, inspire
i’ve learned that I can only rise to the level of where I’m willing to do the same work on (and for) myself. I will be as successful as the top five people I hang out with in my life. If I do not commit to continued growth and learning, every doggone day...
by xandyblog | Jul 30, 2016 | inspire, jax boy, learn
Jax is now more silver, grey and white then caramel and black… this is okay. my roots are grey and silver, too! I see my feelings around this as an acceptance of how life works, the cycles and seasons of all, from birth to youth to older age, wisdom and the...
by xandyblog | Jul 9, 2016 | create, inspire, reach
there are so very many expressions of love. the tragedies we live these days can sometimes not seem balanced by the victories of love. sometimes it seems as if darkness is winning. i’ve witnessed many different styles and methods of outpouring of compassion, hurt,...
by xandyblog | Jul 8, 2016 | inspire, learn, people
*NOTE: thanks to facebook serving me up my memories, I copied and pasted what I wrote for my dad on each of the last july 7’s. i’m still so lucky to have had such an amazing dad. lately I’ve begun to work on regret, and it has been transformative. as...
by xandyblog | Jul 7, 2016 | amaze, inspire, people
my dad was completely irreverent to the “facades” and pretentiousness of many’s lives. and sometimes he was simply completely irreverent, lol! he could thumb his nose at ‘most anything, and often did. not always to the best of responses, but hey, it seemed to roll off...
by xandyblog | Jul 4, 2016 | amaze, create, play
I started collecting memories this morning while giving the garden a quick water with jax boy waiting patiently for his walk… I found it astonishing to realize how much fireworks and the Fourth of July have played a part in my growing up. Most recently,...
by xandyblog | Jun 25, 2016 | amaze, learn, reach
I discovered today thru a personal experiment that Facebook is not a very curious platform. I PRIZE curiosity and believe it to be one of the wellsprings of growth. When i discover something new, i turn to my digital (and physical) resources and then post on the same,...
by xandyblog | Apr 22, 2016 | people
(a few days ago…) i have a dear near neighbor who is leaving us. I visited today and as i came up the walk, i noticed a number of bones, mixed with murky water, in their bird bath. I thought to myself to offer to help clean it and fill it with fresh water. rejuvenate...
by xandyblog | Mar 20, 2016 | jax boy
honoring the death part is so much easier for me than honoring the “dying” part of the process. even as i finally wrote that i had to contradict myself, because on a deep level i know we are *all* dying every day after moment we are born. simply, we...
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