Mindfulness, Learning, and a North Georgia Candy Roaster Squash
Most Sundays find me in the kitchen, turning that week’s farm share or farmers market take (as much as possible, at least) into our meals for the week and … Read More
The naivety of hope
November 16, 2020
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Sarah B
The word “naïve” kept floating into my world last week. As they say, twice is a coincidence and three times is a trend so when I found the word … Read More
Rearranged Socks, Rearranged Thoughts
October 5, 2020
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Sarah B
I was 19 when I bought a proper piece of furniture for myself for the first time. The man at the junk shop – which is to say, the … Read More
The (Optional) Snap of the Band
June 22, 2020
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Sarah B
You might imagine a rubber band. You might imagine a rubber band with two lines on opposite points of it circumference. You might imagine one line represents a feeling … Read More
The Awful/Good, Awfully Good Practice
April 27, 2020
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Sarah B
People occasionally compliment me for being patient. It makes me giggle. When I tell Theresa or my mom about those compliments, they giggle, too. Patience is most certainly not one … Read More
Time Travel for the Sake of the Now
April 13, 2020
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Sarah B
While I’m an advocate for and practitioner in living as much in the present moment as possible (an ever-imperfect attempt, for me, at least), there are historically two ways I’ve … Read More
Escaping Imminent, Gruesome Death in the Backwoods. Sorta.
March 9, 2020
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Sarah B
A couple of winters ago, Theresa and I spent a weekend in a primitive cabin in the middle of nowhere Virginia. It was a little log cabin in a gully … Read More
One Daily Question to Boost Your Growth
February 9, 2020
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Sarah B
At the beginning of 2019, Theresa and I created a list of questions to ask each other at the end of the evening, questions to help us capture and … Read More
Revealing the Invisible Ink of Our Gradual Growth: A Year End Practice
December 30, 2019
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Sarah B
When I was a teen, I got stress headaches. Not every so often but multiple a day for several years. And then one day, I realized that it had been … Read More
Gift Budgets and the Pain of Uncertainty
December 22, 2019
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Sarah B
Last week, I messaged Theresa from the aisles of a store: “How much trouble will I be in if I go a little over our gift budget?” On this, our … Read More