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“It takes a very long time to become young.” ― Pablo Picasso
One of the best ways in which we may lift our children up in this life is to show them that the world is beautiful. We may show them shells and sunflowers, lazy days and wild adventures, delightful...
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Motherhood Requires a Girl to Give Herself a Little Grace
Recently a “fan” of my Facebook page requested that I create a meditation about the presence of grace in motherhood. “Meghan!” she posted, “a meditation on grace, please!! Motherhood requires a girl...
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“The soul is healed by being with children.”– Fyodor Dostoyevsky
When I awoke this morning my back was throbbing and my heart was heavy. I shuffled about washing each of the many dishes that hadn’t come clean in our dysfunctional dishwasher. My husband read to our...
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5 Ways to Return to Mindfulness with Your Children
Being mindful with your children is not about being perfect. It is about recommitting to sharing moments with them time and time again – even when you’ve gone way off of your path and have to travel a...
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5 Benefits of Mindfulness for Mothers
I remember vividly the time in my life when I discovered that mindfulness was so much more powerful than patience. It happened deep in the night, my baby nestled in my arms like an angel, months gone...
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“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.”– Audrey Hepburn
When I was a young girl my grandmother took great pride in teaching me to set a proper table. She knew just how to place things and she was very proud of the vast collection of treasures she’d...
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“This too shall pass.” – Ancient Proverb
Yesterday it was a hurricane morning here in Coastal Southern Maine. The water was moving faster than usual and a strong wind was creating a shower of yellow leaves along the coastline. Out front it...
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“Carpe Diem” ― Quintus Horatius Flaccus
In every moment, of every hour, of every day, we have the opportunity to begin again. To begin again with ourselves, to begin again with our children. As mothers, as women, as human beings, we are the...
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“In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.” —Leo...
There are various stacks of paper piling up on my counters and spilling off of my filing cabinets—evidence of my growing apathy for the “should’s” of this world. My car inspection will wait for the...
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