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Navigating Grief in the Bipolar Sea
If I thought life in general was hard to navigate with bipolar disorder, life in a state of grief and profound adjustment is like charting unknown waters. I’ve been preparing and processing the...
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Winter Solstice
The World Tree by Carol Singer Surely, deeply, a holy Tree grows in your heart. Ancient wisdom is there in a touch of its bark. Its joyous leaves catch Heaven’s light, The roots are strong with...
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Party Assemblage
Plans are coming together for my Callinda Celebration Party on April 21. I’ve reserved the community room in our apartment complex, made and sent the invitations. Just when I was ready to raid my...
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Echoes of Another Life
I went shopping for my party today. I don’t remember the last time I stepped into a liquor store or a fancy gift shop. But, I did remember the feeling—picking up and sniffing pretty candles,...
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Callinda Launch Party
Outside, the day was a little gloomy with patchy rain. Inside, love burned bright. My cousin, Janet, was the first to arrive as she was on her way to work. We grew up together, her family’s farm a...
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You Say It’s Your Birthday
Goodness, I almost missed it. If WordPress hadn’t reminded me that I started this thingamajiggy two years ago, my blog’s birthday would have gone uncelebrated. So… Woo! Hoo!
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Pass Gently Through the Veil this Night
“Death doesn’t exist. It never did, it never will. But we’ve drawn so many pictures of it, so many years, trying to pin it down, comprehend it, we’ve got to thinking of it as an entity, strangely...
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And Also
I love making my annual Winter Solstice cards—no matter what else happens to be going on.
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Five Years Old
A Mind Divided is five today. 5 • 5 • 5 To celebrate, I went through every post (946) to make sure the video links still worked and to find lost pictures. You know WordPress—stuff gets lost. And...
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My National Holiday
Is it really that time of year again? Seems like I just celebrated my favorite holiday. Oh, that’s right—I only rearranged my Pretend Boyfriend Gallery after painting my bedroom so that every day can...
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Part of the Village
This week I went to my grandnephew’s kindergarten graduation. There’s just all kinds of weird in that sentence alone. Children. Family. Social Event. Inclusion. The school is K-12, laid out in a campus...
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The Weekly Penny Positive
I went to an Orphans’ Thanksgiving at my friends’ house (yes, I’m claiming friends!). Instead of bringing a dish to share, I made these playing card-sized, portable reminders.
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Happy Valentines Day
(I bought myself a dozen white roses, so I’m feeling quite fantasy-loved.)
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