The art of living · moving through
Survival
After the storm comes the long ordinary middle — the quiet, stubborn work of moving through. Not the triumphant part of the story, but the keeping-on when you cannot yet see why. These are the days we endured, and what they taught us in the dark.
Latest Survival
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Keep sleeping in peace until we meet again!
They say that the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. With your family, you took the greatest step and we will forever be thankful that you were our first love. Continue to sleep well Papa until we meet again. Ps. These times of uneasiness are when you lean in to all…
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Keep reflecting!
With my people, in the pure light of day, or following snowstorm, you see, we shine…We are like lamp. All we see is reflected.
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Keep these moments!
We tried to lose ourselves in the moment. With kids crying and all. One wanted juice. The purple juice reserved for those who often visit. The other wanted a phone, whether new or old it didn’t matter. Yet a third wanted ice-cream, vanilla, chocolate, anything will do. The time was exactly 6pm and my fourth…
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Keep the sounds of love for 2024!
This evening as we gathered together, I listened to sounds of those that hold us close. One was crying, my first son. He had just used his dad’s clippers to scrap hair off his head. His little brothers and older sister talked about getting him a toupe to cover his head as his dad tried…
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Keep following your bright star!
There up in the sky, there like a season, a greeting, in the darkness of the night, are stars shining brightly for all those moments you bless in pain, those you cherish for no gain, every single time, you wished time passed gently, leaving nothing behind, whether the day remembers or the night forgets, know…
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Keep moments by an ocean!
If by chance you see an ocean, I pray you ask it be good to you. We saw an ocean today and everything was good.
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Keep the bright sides of 2024!
My son on the spectrum was kicked out of school when he was two. And so began a journey into an existence I never knew existed. He is 10 years old now and yesterday he was one of the three wise men in his school’s Christmas play. Shortly after he was kicked out of school,…
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Keep a joyful day!
They possess a look, a feel, a thing, that can only be described as joy. Those many may not know. Those hidden. Those few remember. Those we choose to keep. For day after day and of course on this most colorful day, they help us spread joy to all. Happy Halloween from my joyful family…
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Keep love
I am remembering love, the sweet taste of pomegranate, love, a blue line on a red sky, love, children bright like stars, love, peace that surpasses all understanding… love, a poem without words, this love, love, love…
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Keep being young at heart!
We went to Disney on Ice, reluctantly at first. There were 5 little boys and one almost teen daughter and let’s just say none of the boys wanted to go. We convinced them it would be short and we would go to a playdate afterwards and they reluctantly came along. Of course the show was…
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Keep always the start of a new school year!
Even the morning breeze sigh at the start of a new school year. And what will this year bring, we all wonder to ourselves. Will it bring joy, will it bring growth, will it bring anything trivial like the ease of morning breeze or anything sweet like a joyful squeeze from hands tiny and full…
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Keep simple things.
It was simple to begin, simple to set a date, make a plan, let each other lead, keep things simple. The new year was beginning, all things in the beginning seem simple. Set a date, make a plan, listen, learn, see as they lead. What is not simple: four diseases in one, four conditions in…