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Summer!
Summer means hot days and sticky nights swarming with mosquitoes and whatever else lives out there. For me, it means listening for bees and being nervous about walking outside. It means thunderstorms to break up the humidity and make life a little louder. It means popsicles and swimming pools, ice cream trips, and beach days.…
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Summer is Here!
Did anyone else grow up on the High School Musical movies? All I keep thinking of when I think about writing this post is the beginning of the second movie when everyone in the classroom starts quietly chanting/counting down, “Summer, Summer, Summer” before the bell rings and the whole school bursts into song. Is that…
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Hello, Summer!
I feel like there’s lots of jokes about summer. In Southern states, one may hear, “We have four seasons. Summer, summer, summer, and about two weeks of winter.” In the Pacific Northwest and the Rockies Mountain states, one may hear, “We have four seasons. Winter, winter, winter, and road construction [read, summer].” But people also…
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Sunshine and Bluebonnets
I don’t have a particular favorite season. I love how each season brings something that I enjoy. Summer brings lazy summer days and swimming days, fall brings leaves changing colors and cooler weather, and winter bring a warm hearth and hot chocolate. Spring? Spring brings longer periods of sunshine. It brings flowers and warmth. It…
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One Plane Train to Another
Change can happen for a lot of different reasons, which I think can be divided into two categories: things that happen to you directly and things that happen to the people around you but still impact your life. Let’s talk about the changes that can happen to you directly. Maybe you get a new job…
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Processing Change
Do you like change? Or do you try to resist it as much as possible? Change can be good. Change can be bad. Change can have some good elements and some bad elements. We can decide to change or have change forced on us. Every instance of change is different, how ironic is that! I…
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Boldness in Change
As a girl, I had a pet chameleon. He would change his colorings to blend into his surroundings. My favorite pattern was when he was on top of the couch. His bright green would dull into sage greens, dark greens, and grays, and spread across his body would be a pattern of diamonds to mirror…
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Looking Forwards
We just started a new year, which is usually when people decide they are going to change big things about themselves and their lifestyles. Does this sound familiar? You tell yourself that you are going to wake up early to go to the gym however many days a week and eat super healthy. Then by…
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The Sounds & Smells of Fall
I LOVE fall! To me, fall means pumpkins, apples, sunflowers, hay bales, festivals and very comfy leggings and sweaters. It means cute long dresses for church and fallen leaves crunching under my feet. Fall also means we’re even closer to Christmas which is my favorite time of the year. Until then, we have Halloween (which…
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Looking Back to Look Forwards
“It’s fall, y’all!” That is what my boss said when I walked into work on Thursday morning with a cloudy, overcast sky outside. Here in California, we are at the awkward time of year where we can be so excited to wear our sweaters in the mornings but come to regret that decision by noon…