One of my most favourite live music experiences ever.
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i think i’m in love
December 15 – 5 Minutes Imagine you will completely lose your memory of 2010 in five minutes. Set an alarm for five minutes and capture the things you most want to remember about 2010. (Author: Patti Digh)
The only thing that is really important. My family. I have the four most amazing little creatures in my life. My kids make me laugh and cry. They bring me to the heights of every single emotion, then they burst the threshold and fill me with more love than i ever thought i could possibly hold. I am so thankful to have them in my life. They make me proud every single day. They continually amaze me. Watching them stretch and grow over the past year has been incredible. I never know what is around the corner when it comes to parenting and i look so forward to every single day with them and treasure every single one of these fourteen years i’ve been a parent.
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I have been thinking about bravery.
I have taken so many leaps of faith in my life. I wonder now how many times i have been brave and not, simply, blindly, leaping.
Each time i got pregnant i was surprised. I never, really, planned the when's of having babies. I just let fate take it's course. I believed in my body, that it would let me know when it was done with the babymaking. And it did, after my third c-section my body told me it had had enough, it needed to rest.
When we decided to leave the city behind and set up shop in a small community, we did it on a whim. Making an offer on the first and only house we looked at. Me seven months pregnant with our fourth child. Moving when he was just 8 weeks old.
When my house burnt down i didn't know what to do. I didn't think i'd make it through the insurance and the construction. I had no idea how to do it. But, i had to.
When i reflect on my life i see that i have been brave. I have stood tall and moved on, moved ahead, moved forward – despite fear and anxiety and obstacles. I am ready to take another leap, to be brave – to do something frightening, exhilarating and challenging. I can hardly wait to share it.
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I am two espressos into the morning. I keep forgetting to buy coffee beans. This morning i sent my daughter across the road to the coffee shop to get me something. Instead of drip she came back with the thick syrupy espresso.
I like this. I like this village living. I like the streetlights.
I haven't lived near streetlights for six years. I wander home from work, late at night, under their orange glow. The village is empty, quiet, peaceful. The flashing red light at the intersection is the center of my universe.
The kids rush in from school, tossing backpacks and the day aside. Grabbing pocketfuls of snacks and run back out the door to find friends and wander the village giggling and laughing and getting up to the perfection of kid trouble.
I watch them from the windows of the restaurant. They march by in packs of two's and three's. I sneak out the side door to watch and listen. "Doesn't your mom work there?" There are whispers and adrenaline as they embrace this new freedom.
They are village rats now. They own this town. All three square blocks of it.
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via the inspiring superhero journal
Birds on the Wires from Jarbas Agnelli on Vimeo.
Reading a newspaper, I saw a picture of birds on the electric wires. I cut out the photo and decided to make a song, using the exact location of the birds as notes (no Photoshop edit). I knew it wasn't the most original idea in the universe. I was just curious to hear what melody the birds were creating. Jarbas Agnelli
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