January 2012
2 posts
December 2011
4 posts
“We women have a lot to learn about simplifying our lives. We have to decide what...”
– Marjorie Hinckley (via mollyirwin)
I’m working on this, every day. And probably for the rest of my life, too.
November 2011
5 posts
“if you feel lost, and you want to make things but you don’t know what or where to start, just make everything. keep making lots of different things, even make the same things over and over if you have to. one day, your vision will become a little more clear and you will have something that is yours.”
-kelly hickenbottom from this interview on random nicole
3 tags
October 2011
6 posts
the shorter days are setting in big time. i really need to figure out how to deal with the gnawing sense of dread I feel during the hour(s) between the sun setting and mike getting home from work.
today I tried buying stuff on etsy, and eating snacks mindlessly. i do not think these are viable long-term solutions.
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September 2011
9 posts
i think all my life problems could be solved if I had a studio space outside of my house where I could have just 5 hours alone every week. alone and uninterrupted. just 5 hours! i’m not asking for much.
related: if the boy does not take a nap today I’m gonna lose it.
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HI CHICAGO
hannahjarvie:
internet life is real life. let’s play!
yes, me too! if the amount of people i personally know going to renegade is any indication of the total amount of people . . the crowd this weekend is going to be insane.
if you see me, say hi.
August 2011
5 posts
5 tags
July 2011
11 posts
how to tell if you're doing your life's work →
So your whole world should be a cycle of balancing and unbalancing, contraction and growth. Imagine weight lifting. The more stable you are, the heavier you can lift. (…)
In order to get anywhere in life, you need to be uncomfortable constantly. You need to have new input and absorb new information or you’re not growing. If you don’t want to grow, it’s because things are fine as they...
nprfreshair:
Audio is now up for Terry’s...
For 25 years, American Girls have been defining... →
literateandstylish:loveliesteyes:idealistically:
“It was easy to get suckered in by the other dolls. Samantha and her pretty sophistication. Kirsten and her fat blond ringlets. Josefina and her pierced ears. All of these dolls — smart and vivacious as they were — would have sat at the popular table in the modern elementary school cafeteria.
‘When you choose Molly, you’re sort of putting a...
“I don’t know” is not an acceptable answer.
Any of the following are a better response. Most of them basically mean the same thing as “I don’t know” but at least show me that you have the bare minimum of interest in the question at hand:
I’ll think about it.
Let me check.
I’ll get back to you.
Why don’t you ask (insert name of colleague here)?
Have you tried (insert any idea or suggestion, no matter how silly it might sound)?
I don’t...
“Everything has been clean and beautiful. people are nice everywhere.”
– nice snippet of an email from my mom. right now my parents are on a massive road trip all over the western half of the US: new mexico, the grand canyon, california to visit some relatives, and back again.
June 2011
10 posts
Let us suffer here with Jesus, and with patience bear our cross. Joy will follow all our sadness; where He is there is no loss. Though today we sow no laughter, we shall reap celestial joy: All discomforts that annoy shall give way to mirth hereafter. Jesus, here I share Your woe; help me there Your joy to know.
Sigismund von Birken, 1626-81
Do you ever have that feeling?
abecomingmotherhood:
Am I the only one who feels like they are never “on top of things”? Yes, housework, work, meals, errands, keeping my hair from being a mess… it goes on and on. I. can’t. keep. up.
I would elaborate, but I can’t even keep up with my thoughts today.
And to my new followers, I apologize. I am not always such a scattered mess. (Old followers, don’t tell them the real truth!)
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