Tag: failure
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When In Colorado…
Colorado is a state where outdoors is another living space, People spend hours hiking, biking, skiing, skating, snowboarding, walking–anything that allows nature and humanity to intersect. Our daughter and her family have accomplished many of these activities together, and their commitment to take every opportunity that comes along is being pursued with gusto. She sent…
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What Defines You?
photo courtesy of Santa Barbara on Unsplash Cooking and baking fascinated me when I was young. The preferred norm in our home was having the adults to do it–there were no mess ups or culinary disasters to cause issues. One morning when I was about seven, I decided it would be a grand idea to…
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The Focus Of The World
photo courtesy of Rhett Lewis on Unsplash Every four years people from all over the world turn away from the challenges of everyday living, personal opposition, and possibly pain, to watch a game that everyone sees as the beautiful game. Maybe not so much in America, where football is played with an oblong ball rather…
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Being Stuck Is Hard
I forget to collect the mail on occasion. Most things that come through the mail are ads, unasked-for periodicals, and pleas to vote for certain people. It’s that season. While John’s been gone, I didn’t bother to go to the mailbox down the street. Too many times on returning home from work it was pouring…
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To Dye Or Not To Dye
When life hands you a lemon, you look desperately for sugar so it’s not a complete loss. When our family vacation was canceled due to Covid, our Colorado family got creative, primed for together time. They, too, had weathered the virus the week before the rest of us did, so having already experienced isolation, they…
Tip of My Iceberg 