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Courage to Share

In December 2015 a group of eleven Indigenous women climbed one of the highest mountains of the Andes range in Bolivia. They had no...

Weeding

The garden is one of the two great metaphors for humanity. The other, of course, is the river. – Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird Gardening is a...

Training Hike #1

Why would I do something that makes me feel uncomfortable, slow, insecure, incompetent, and out of place? I might do it for what I can...

The Growing Edge

On Memorial Day, the unofficial start of summer, I officially started preparing for a hiking trip in July. Itinerary Day 1: Fly to Las...

Pure Barre (Part 2)

"There's nothing easy about this." That's one of the comments we'll hear from Carmel while we're holding one leg up and out to the side,...

May Day

It’s the first of May as I write this. I get excited about the first day of any month. It’s a time to start over, to let go of the last...

Earth Friendly Challenge

As Earth Day is tomorrow, this seems like a good time to report on a challenge that I set for myself for the six-week season of Lent,...

Hiking Delights

Two days ago I did my first hike of the year. (Skip past all my excellent excuses for why I hadn’t done any hiking for the past three...

Two Grandmothers

I didn't know my grandfathers; they both died before I was born. Maybe that's one reason the influence of my grandmothers on my formation...

Origins

My sister, Linda, died last week. It was expected; she had been in hospice care at home for three months, with her daughter Sarah as her...

Pure Barre (Part 1)

I first encountered Pure Barre in some of Rachel’s Instagram posts. I recognized the term “barre” from ballet, and photos showed a barre...

Mindset

Recently I discovered Angie and Kevin Brown at Real Life Runners so of course I signed up for their email promos. Stay with me here,...

Progress

I’ve been away for a while, learning how to build this site, which means learning how to manipulate the elements to make what you see...

Play

On a recent weekend, I played. My posts so far on this beginning blog have been on the theme of Move. This one is about Play. I am...

One Year

I started running one year ago tomorrow, July 10th. The Nike Run Club app on my phone records it as “Friday Night Run” because I started...

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