Tag: anxiety
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It’s All About The Party
Being put in charge of an almost five-year-old and his social schedule can be daunting. Especially if you’ve not spent time around the city where he lives with his family. We have the wonderful privilege of watching Beck for about five days while his parents take a long-overdue space of time for themselves. He’s by…
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Unplug The Stress
photo courtesy of Artem Sapegin on Unsplash My jet-lagged, fogged-over brain woke me at 3:15 a.m. It was confused. Then my anxiety-driven brain ratcheted it up a notch by going into overdrive with all that needs to be done in the next few weeks as we finish with the group of people we’ve had here…
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In The Swing Of Things
The magnificent tree in our backyard has been gaining in stature and strength since it was put in as a sapling 27 years ago. It was ready to hold a swing. We bought one of those round swings which can effectively hold 660 pounds of humanity. There were seven on the swing at once, not…
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In Times Of Calm, Storms Still Happen
Our final week of pause saw rain every day. Downpours greeted us with dark clouds scudding across the sky like angry messengers. Winds blew the chimes on the porch into a wild symphony of sound and movement. It made me feel good that it’s been raining back home as well, where the ground in central…
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What Lies Beneath?
The stump that reminded me of the living tree that once graced our lawn is gone. It’s been ground up, mulched, mutilated. It didn’t go quietly. Because of problems that cropped up with our 25-year-old tree, we had to take it down. Its stump looked sorrowful, a torso without limbs. It has left a bare…
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