Tag: 2024
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Happy New Year: 2025!
Words for 2025: Focus, Stillness and Simplify As I sit and reflect by the pool or Caribbean Sea, I am grateful for the amazing life that we/I lead. We are fortunate to be able to travel as much as we do, experience the things we do, and enjoy life’s many luxuries as we do. We…
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Thoughts on the India Experience
The country of India has always held a fascination for me. From the extremes of the shanty towns, slums, to the Bollywood richness, with spiritual spaces, ashrams, to rituals in the Ganges River and festivals of colors and lights, I’ve been curious. On the other hand, stories of violence against women, the expression of the…
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Wedding in India
It’s been a little busy as we prepared for our first trip to India. 🇮🇳 About three or four years ago, M connected with a guy to help him create apps. They became friends. We learned of their love story and mentally planned for their eventual marriage celebrations. In July of this year, we confirmed…
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Happy Thanksgiving 2024
Another lovely Thanksgiving has passed. This year was a bit quieter since I celebrated early with a Friendsgiving in Japan. We are also in between trips, so I wasn’t really up to organizing the cooking or getting people to come celebrate with us. So, it was a blessing to be able to join friends at…
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Too Much Travel?!
A pause in our flitting to and fro feels nice. We have been traveling every month to somewhere new according to M’s photo memories. The positive of traveling is that life is always changing and we experience new things regularly. The downside is that it is easy to forget where we have been, and we…
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Japan Visit
I just returned from what has become a yearly visit to Japan. My relationship with the country has evolved now that I don’t live there full-time nor need to work to enjoy what the Land of the Rising Sun offers. While I can never quite decide if I would want to live there again, I…
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New York Visit
I may have left it too long for my memory to recall our/my latest trip to New York City. It was nearly a month ago now and it seems that despite my promises to update about the trip, I have only just now remembered. Guess that’s part of the brain fog era of life that…
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Waiting to Breathe
Well, I had two glorious days of doing absolutely nothing, which was much needed. My energy cup was bordering on empty, which is often when my bipolar tendencies kick-in. Though I don’t think that I have such strong ups and downs these days, I definitely notice when stress affects my productivity, judgment, and behavior. So,…
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Small Town Regrets
I keep meaning to sit down to write, but catching up on “normal” life and trying to see local friends has made it more challenging than I had anticipated in settling into routine. I feel as if I’m running on fumes. Perhaps, that is also because I might have the tinge of a cold threatening…
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In Memory Of: Lance Watkins
I am due to write a proper post about my travels and activities, but I felt it appropriate to take a pause to acknowledge the passing of my cousin this past week. L was quite a bit older than me and by the time I arrived to the Bilyeu family, he was already living his…
