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What a week can do: Perspective Day 20

Feb 20, 2014 By Elin Stebbins Waldal Leave a Comment

What a week can do: Perspective Day 20

Although my commitment to daily blogging hasn’t exactly been perfect this month, I am happy to say when it comes to my announcement on Day 11 to reclaim my health and love for exercise, things are looking good. It turns out what I really needed was a kick in the ass from an electronic device–yes, […]

Filed Under: Exercise Tagged With: exercise, fitbit, hiking, Motivation, NaBlogPoMo

Five Favorites: Twisted Mix Tape

Feb 18, 2014 By Elin Stebbins Waldal 2 Comments

Five Favorites: Twisted Mix Tape

It’s been way to long since I managed to put together a Twisted Mix-Tape for Jen Kehl’s, Twisted Mix-Tape Tuesday. Today I promised myself I would get it done before midnight…and miraculously…it looks as if I actually just might pull it off. Theme for the week is my pick so I think I am going […]

Filed Under: Music Tagged With: NaBlogPoMo, Perspective, twisted mix-tape Tuesday

Perspective: Day 3

Feb 3, 2014 By Elin Stebbins Waldal 1 Comment

Perspective: Day 3

On Saturday J and I made our way to the top of Double Peak Park, something we have been “meaning” to do for years. I have found that it is easy to get neglectful when it comes to exploring the bounty that exists right here in our own backyard. That is why I say making […]

Filed Under: Nature Tagged With: NaBlogPoMo, nature, Perspective, Walking

Perspective: Day 1

Feb 1, 2014 By Elin Stebbins Waldal 5 Comments

Perspective: Day 1

It’s February and the theme for BlogHer’s National Blog Post Month where blogger’s post daily is Perspective. Although I swore off posting daily after completing the challenge of NaBloPoMo last November, I changed my mind when I read the theme…so once again I am diving into the waters of blogging daily, only this time I […]

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: BlogHer, NaBlogPoMo, Perspective

Finding My Way Back to Peace

Nov 16, 2013 By Elin Stebbins Waldal 6 Comments

Finding My Way Back to Peace

The Peace of Wild Things   When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great […]

Filed Under: Life Cleanse, NaBloPoMo13 Tagged With: NaBlogPoMo, Peace, Poetry, Wendell Berry

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