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Jaimie-of-all-Trades
My creative power and prowess as a “Jaimie-of-All-Trades” is finally beginning to bloom.
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Umbraphile, a Seeker of Shadows
Solar Eclipse 2024, Austin TX. Image courtesy of https://www.austintexas.gov/blog/total-eclipse-2024-atx Seven years ago, on August 21, 2017, the Midwest was fortunate to experience a 100% totality solar eclipse; in fact, it was nicknamed the “Great Eclipse” by some media, more than likely because of the huge swath it contained in the contiguous United States. I was…
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She Used to Be Mine
Mom and myself, 1980. Typically tulips arrive on your birthday, little pink slips of gladness poking through the earth, tangled in last year’s debris that I haven’t yet cleared. Today that isn’t the case and that makes me sadder than I really should be. My birth was the final knell of your childhoodThat rings within…
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Second Brain That Should Be My First Brain
Image above courtesy of heal.me I have been studying Ayurveda practices the last several weeks with a local yogi who is simply amazing to have in our pocket of northeast Kansas. I have long cherished a dream to take a yoga instructor certification course, but that was pushed to the back burner of life when…
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The Little Things
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=273759070386243 The link above takes you to a clip of “Point of No Return” wherein Bridget Fonda’s character smiles through gritted teeth, “I never did mind about the little things”. I had almost forgotten about this film, and it surfaced briefly when some nogooddoer decided to make Fonda’s private life the source of his own…
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Knocking People’s Hats Off
We are having weather in Kansas that I typically adore, a day to cuddle up with the doggos, a cuppa tea, and a good book that pulls me out of my worries and troubles. Today, it weighs heavily on my spirit, and I woke up in a mood. This kind of mood: “Whenever I find…
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Cole Chicks
Twenty years…and what has been one of the more challenging years since she has been gone, though I always tell myself if I gutted, ground, and grappled through her death at 25, nothing much beyond that will faze me. If you became a motherless daughter at an early age, you know full well how the…
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You Belong Among the Wildflowers
In the ever-evolving world, the art of forging genuine connections remains timeless. Whether it’s with colleagues, clients, or partners, establishing a genuine rapport paves the way for collaborative success.