memories – Taylored Pursuit

This City on the River

Visual Post: What if I Fly?

This. Poem by Erin Hanson Post inspired by today’s Daily Calm daily meditation Today’s Daily Calm meditation topic was “fear of intimacy” — fear of opening up, and a habit of avoiding love. While I have less of that particular fear — hence, numerous heartbreaks and one granddaddy of a heartbreak a few years ago…

1 Month Later – A Celebration of Cooper

I’ve been able to mention Cooper’s death without tearing up for about week now. Common wisdom and my own experience tells us that time, as it goes by, makes the pain of loss less sharp. It’s never gone. But it becomes softer. Some moments catch us unexpectedly, like the lovely coffee shop person who didn’t…

Thursday We Chose Joy

I realized then that my whole job for the rest of her shortened life was going to be to give her an environment of joy and calm. Not grief, stress, and denial.