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30 Days of 30. Day 3. (part one)

June 04, 2013

My entire day yesterday was spent in rest to prepare for my planned 30 days of 30 celebration last night. Ready for it? I attended a good friend’s elementary school band and orchestra concert AND I helped tune/work with the beginning and advanced flautists. Doesn’t sound like it would require a full day’s prep, but let me tell you, the prep was absolutely necessary. Here’s the scene I walked into: A confusing parking lot … I was so focused on …

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30 Days of 30: Day 2

June 03, 2013

“The choice to love is a choice to connect—to find ourselves in the other.” bell hooks, All About Love We are a people hardwired for connection and it’s in and through our relationships with others that we come to best know ourselves. At its heart, connection, relationships, self-awareness, and reflection are what my 30 days of 30 is all about: I get 30 days to celebrate the completion of 30 years of life and to acknowledge all of the intricacies that …

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30 days of 30. Day 1.

June 02, 2013

  At the end of this month, I’ll turn 30; for months I thought of ways I could celebrate: I could try to raise some increment of 30 for 3 different charities ($1000 to each= $3000), I could try 30 new things… The list went on and on until the moment that I realized there were 30 days in June: I would be 30 and there were 30 days. It couldn’t be coincidence! Each day, throughout the month of June, …

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Ursula Le Guin

April 12, 2013

Ursula Le Guin is one of my favorite female science fiction authors. A few weeks ago, I wrote her a card, enclosed a SASE, and * asked for signed bookplates . Today, they arrived in the mail. Joy, is a tangible connection to an author whom I admire and who has influenced my work. * When I sent my SASE/card, she still had the offer for bookplates posted. I must have just made it in under the wire. 

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