I guess my word for 2013 would be …tribulation? adversity? The prompt for this first day of Reverb13 is …Where did you start 2013? Wow. It’s pretty horrible, but then 2013 has been a pretty horrible year. I can say some things are better. Em’s  school is SO much better. …
I’ll change, then change again. Before your very eyes…I am sometimes this way, another time that way… I’ll figure it out eventually.. I just know I’m not in the darkest place that I was. I’m in a different place, not so dark, more chiaroscuro.. more confusing but not so …
Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absentminded. Someone sober will worry about things going badly. Let the lover be. ~Rumi It just seems to fit right now. It is a poetry time of year. XXXV PROUD of my broken heart since thou didst break it, Proud of the pain I …
I think I’ll be overhauling this site soon–needs a new look to go with getting a new start.
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Fotor, a photo by jyllianm on Flickr. Oh…what can I say? Our Bean is growing up into a gorgeous young girl. It’s happening too fast.
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Whether the person knows you exist or not, whether your apology is significant to them or not-when you have done something wrong or spoken out of turn. Whether you hurt their feelings or they didn’t even notice… You should make what was wrong, right. By words then deeds after. Â Even …
I’ve done it again. I’ve done it repeatedly . I don’t know what to write about because what I would like to write about I can’t. It isn’t a good idea to write about work. It just isn’t. However much I wish I could have written about all the interesting …
I dreamed my husband J was the 10th Doctor There was a big celebration with the last three doctors all on different parts of a giant space ship Each had a guide that kept him (mostly) out of the paths of the others. My Doctor was on …
just before you die. That is true. It’s called Life ~Terry Pratchett First of all I have to say how Terry Pratchett has shaped my adult life. I wish I could start every entry I ever write about so many things with what he’s done for me and for not …
Emily in my old Emily the Strange cat jacket, a photo by jyllianm on Flickr. I saved this and saved this because I hoped in the back of my mind I’d have a daughter who could wear it one day. I wore this in my 20s. Obviously I was smaller …
Bean on the way to her first private voice lesson, a photo by jyllianm on Flickr. It’s probably past time for her to start private voice lessons, but we know she is mature enough to handle the practice now. We usually both try to take her and then have a …
She asked how it work, a photo by jyllianm on Flickr. It’s funny when you think about it. Some things just aren’t around anymore, things I took for granted the Bean has never really seen. Until we went to a vintage furniture store. And it was an odd and somehow …
― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience and Other Essays: Collected Essays of Henry David Thoreau There comes a time when you really get it that there is more behind you than ahead of you. That whatever you see in the mirror –that probably isn’t what other people see. And …
