Our thoughts tend to follow the same pattern day after day. Our attention, driven by habitual thinking and our environments (which tend to stay overall the same), is focused on the same things.

What might happen if we let our mind loose - if we encouraged our thoughts to get lost?

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I’ve not ever really participated in the “word of the year” practice that comes up around this time. While I typically feel that one word held onto for an entire year is too constricting for my purposes, I will say that there is a tremendous amount of power that can come from a single word.

Take this one, for example:

Unburdened.

That word came to me about a week ago during one my walks. And it led to an entire windfall of new words, feelings, and direction for the upcoming months.

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On my morning walk, in the midst of the dark, brisk chill, I saw a falling star. The surprise and the beauty of the moment took my breath away. I immediately whispered, “that was magical”. The cascade of thoughts that followed led to this post.

 Magic is that which is beyond understanding.

Try that definition on in your mental wardrobe for a moment. Then let’s talk…

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It is difficult being a stay-at-home mom. I’m talking about the times when the kids aren’t around. When the house is quiet and I am left to ask, “what now”?

Each day, there was - is - tons to do. But there is no one telling me when or how to do it. And believe it or not, here’s where the struggle starts to come in.

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For those who follow me on Facebook, you've seen my recent story-telling portraiture images. While I LOVE making them, there is so much more that goes into a single image than I first realized. Each time I start a new one, I have a deeper appreciation for each and every image I've created before that one. 

And such it is with many things in life: I don't realize how many small steps it actually takes to have achieved / be achieving the things that I am doing.

When I stop to think about it, I am - WE are - actually doing so much in everyday life. And each of those tiny, mundane things has a huge influence on how my life looks overall.

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I want to start telling less and showing more.

Words are POWERFUL. I adore them. But in today’s society, where attention comes and goes in mere seconds and fights for space in crowded minds, images have a power of immediacy that can’t be ignored.

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