Dancing with Fireflies

The Foundation – New House Updates

The foundation has been laid and we have a basement! Watching the new house grow has been very exciting. It's like laying down the seeds in a new garden and watching anxiously for the first blooms. I think the hardest part has been waiting for things to start moving. It seemed like once we made the move, we hoped everything would move along and we would see things coming up… Read More »

A Rare Opportunity – Lessons From Our Ancestors

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Today has been an interesting day. Not one that I expected, and for various reasons I am glad. I want to tell you a story, about my day. I've been ill. Maybe it's the Lyme, maybe it's the weather or getting older, I don't know. But I've felt awful for the last week or so. More than that, I've been preoccupied with how I feel. I feel old, my… Read More »

Creative energy – Albert Einstein

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“I was originally supposed to become an engineer but the thought of having to expend my creative energy on things that make practical everyday life even more refined, with a loathsome capital gain as the goal, was unbearable to me.” ― Albert Einstein, The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

Dawn Saylor – When I was 14

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The unbreakable Dawn Saylor's Def Poetry piece, When I was 14 is amazing and deep. She is truly, unbreakable.

In sickness and in health

When we got married, we had a lot of crazy things on our minds. For us, it was already complicated. We started things off by throwing every obstacle in the world at our marriage. We launched right into having a family, not a small one.. one cute kid and a dog, but a large one ending in 5 kids, dogs, cats, and a ton of debt that we managed to… Read More »