I didn’t have to know . . . It was enough to trust that what I’d done was true. To understand its meaning without yet being able to say precisely what it was . . . It was everything. It was my life - …
Appreciating Diversity in Bellevue, Washington
We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams. - Jimmy Carter As we sat at Lake Sammamish State …
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Deliberately Wandering to Cool Spots on Hot Days
I’d only wanted to be alone. Alone had always felt like an actual place to me as if it weren't a state of being, but rather a room where I could retreat to be who I really was. - Cherly Strayed, …
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Connecting The Dots in The San Juan Islands
No man is an island, Entire of itself, Every man is a piece of the continent, A part of the main. - John Donne As we boarded the green and white ferry in Anacortes, Washington this week, we were …
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A Foolproof Map for Living Deliberately
My last thought before falling asleep was that we are all a lot more capable of conquering obstacles and fears than we think. ― Rinker Buck, The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey As we made our …
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Have You Ever Been Home Without a Home?
I am at home. My children were born here, my parents and some of my siblings live here. I went to school in Washington State from the time I was a toddler through graduate school. I met my husband …
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