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The Pause That Teas You Up
In Sweden it’s referred to as “fika”. It’s so significant there that it’s actually protected by law. It’s a laid-back chat over coffee. A time to pause, refresh with friends, taking a break from routine. It’s not a grab-and-go where you phone your coffee order into your local barista, pay on your phone app, drive…
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What Is Worth Remembering?
As a child, the day heralded the approach of summer and the end of school. It was a day where we had neighborhood picnics and went to a parade where I didn’t pay much attention to who was marching but who was throwing candy. We also visited the cemetery, which felt ghastly as a child.…
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There’s A Time For Every Purpose
‘Tis the season for graduations and moving forward in our personal journeys. For this COVID season which has made time crawl by with sloth-like slowness, coming to this occasion to honor grads of all kinds is a pleasant pause in a cultural norm of unease. Celebrations are reminders that the seasons pass even when we…
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Be Silly–Be Brave–Be Kind
End-of-the-year programs and gatherings are all about remembering and assessing–recalling the fun and funny and evaluating the growth that’s taken place over the past several months. The scale changes as we get older–greater expectations, more formalized tests, fewer programs based on fun. I was able to attend Cal and Mason’s final performance of preschool. This…
Tip of My Iceberg 