Tag: July
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Reclaiming Your Online Joy: Why Posting ‘Just to Post’ is Actually OK
Watching advice on creating purposeful social media content made me pause. Most of my posts are for myself—random moments and simple joys, not a business strategy. While I value professional writing, online expression should also be a fun, personal distraction, focused on beauty and calm. Read more about finding your digital balance.
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Barcelona: Finding the Balance Between City Life and Country Calm
Hola from Barcelona! We’re three days into a city-stay to see if this vibrant metropolis is the perfect escape from our quiet country life. Despite the busy season and a touch of city grit, I’m loving the walkable streets, the relaxed beach vibe, and the accessible energy. It’s the perfect balance.
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A Lost Month, But Rediscovering My Rhythm
It’s been a month since my last post, but I’m finally finding my footing amidst the chaos of travel and visitors. Like Indiana Jones’s invisible bridge, it takes faith to move forward. From birthday bashes in London to late-night World Cup matches, life has been beautifully disruptive with Fall projects in development!
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Gratitude For Flat
Life continues to move forward. I am not yet fully in a headspace where I know what to write here, which is a rarity. It’s not that I am necessarily depressed nor dwelling on any kind of grief. My intellectual brain says, “They were just dogs.” My heart says, “They were my babies.” My soul…
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Orvieto Sound Festival Weekend
There are various regular summer activities that happen around the cities, towns and villages of Italy. Umbria is no different. The main events that can be found around are music festivals. Our town of Orvieto always has the Orvieto Sound Festival. While I don’t listen to a lot of Italian music, though it would probably…
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Life is…
Life is complicated and a roller coaster at times. Is it this way for everyone, or do other people have stable mental states and day-to-days? Would I want that even if I could? – Probably not. Nothing is wrong, per se. All is well physically, financially, etc. Yet, my mental state is jumbled. I’m a…
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It’s Me…Not You/Them
Being independent in thinking, persona, and image can leave one (me) with a sense of loneliness, even when I am surrounded by others, most especially by those I actually like. I have always been a trend balker. If something becomes trendy, I actively go the other way to avoid being considered a follower or a…
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It’s Too Hot!
This will be short. It’s too hot for me to function…. All is well, though. The ankle is healing well with plans to remove the stitches/staples next Wednesday and then life can return to a bandage-free normal. Thankfully, the temperatures are meant to drop a bit in the coming days, so hopefully I won’t have…
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Rising Temperatures; Cooling Minds
I love this picture so much. It represents the sense of melting that I feel in these really hot and humid days where I feel as if my skin is burning off even in the shade after just 5 minutes outside. It also shows my avatar relaxed and accepting the situation, which is how I…
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Third Book Out is Poetry
When I was eight-years-old, I moved in with the Bilyeus and decided I liked them enough to want to remember who they were in my life. Previous families were, and still are, a blur as nightmares or questionable realities of buried memories. So, it was then that my writing persona began. At the time, I…
