Saying hello to Gracie

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Gracie Martin has been writing her and her husband's amazing story of challenge, sacrifice and love over the past month (click on the Favorite Nothings Tab to read Gracie's Story) and she has told their story is such beautiful ways.  Through her sharing she opened a door for many to feel the freedom to share their stories, feel not alone, and believe that there is hope in all the mess of who we … [Read more...]

Real Love… The beginning patchwork of something beautiful

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Love..... such a word in our culture. Often it is just that, a word.  In the same breath that we say we have the deepest and most adoring love for someone we also so passionately proclaim the love we have for the new Taco Bell Doritos taco.  We are not only a culture that doesn't understand true love but we don't even have the words in our language to begin to understand it. While you … [Read more...]

Belonging everywhere… Settled nowhere

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As I wrote in my last post I have been having a difficult time writing lately.  I have realized more and more why and the reality is, I have so much to deal with each day that at the end of, or even the beginning of the day, I have had very little brain power left to use on creative outlets of any kind.  However, many of my writings come from moments or events in my life that strike me when I … [Read more...]

Brain power… where oh where have you gone?

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My last post was all about my return from lingering in the dark ages for a few weeks with out any internet access and the great return I would have in my writing journey following the grand internet restoration.  Well... that return has proven it's self to be an epic fail. I have been racking my brain for weeks about things to write and the truth is that I just have nothing... I mean nothing. … [Read more...]