Hope has always seemed like some dreamy, far-off thing to me. A gauzy curtain out ahead somewhere and not terribly relevant, really, to today. But it’s actually entirely relevant. And very hard work. Planting Trees Eric and I were walking around our property on Sunday afternoon looking at the trees that we’ve planted...
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How to Use Time Well
Time is available to everyone at the same rate in the same amounts. But how to use time well … that’s a whole different thing. I am realizing that I use time very poorly. But I am also learning that I’m ready to do it differently. How to Use Time Well Maybe “using” time...
5 Things I Learned This Summer
So here’s what I learned this summer, in five quick notes: I can do hard things. I’ve already talked about all the house and yard stuff we did this summer, so I won’t rehash it here. But in all the projects and scheduling and details, I learned that I really can do hard things....
Do the Quiet Things Well
We are hosting a wedding in our backyard in less than a month, so there’s A LOT of work to do. And I’m learning this week that it’s very hard to do the quiet things well. It isn’t as hard, really, to do the big, flashy things. Not that they aren’t hard work. They...
Halfway
We are at the halfway point of summer. Usually, of course, I’m totally a glass-half-empty kind of girl. But I’m not really sad about it. I simply realized this week that we’re pretty close to the halfway mark, give or take a few days. And while it would be totally easy to make it...