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  • Homeless man sleeps in a doorway with cardboard for a blanket.
    Family,  Grief,  Mental Health,  The Kitchen Sink

    Sometimes, It’s All I Can Do Not To Fall Apart

    Loving my brother has been both the hardest and easiest thing I’ve ever done. Today he told me a shop owner shot him in the face with a BB gun. He’d over slept and was still there when the shop opened, but instead of telling my brother to move, he just shot him.

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    It’s The Little Things – Postcard No. 7

    The flight was horrendous. Not because of turbulence or difficult passengers. It was horrendous because my youngest child suffers from severe motion sickness. Over the 18 hours we were in the air, he threw up no less than 12 times.

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    If We’re Not Living Life On Purpose, What Are We Doing?

    What does it mean to live a life on purpose? I suppose it's up to interpretation. But I think of it like this: Appreciate the little things. Accept the challenges life throws you, and do what you can to make the world better than you found it.

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I’m a dog lover, chocolate addict, warm bread sniffer, slow tea sipper, blank notebook hoarder, nomadic homebody. I seek out opportunities to live my life on purpose.


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