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 It's been getting colder here. We had a very mild Christmas and New Year, and now midway into January, it feels like a bitter winter.  Most Fridays, I am running errands while my kids are in school. It's my grocery shopping day. I finally had a chance to have a quick lunch date with the husband.  I had to take my elderly parent to the dentist this afternoon.  I became an unplanned (accidental? sudden? coincidental?) caregiver just over 2 years ago. It was very unexpected. It wasn't even on the radar of the last thing I thought would ever happen to me. But here we are, 2 years later. I am (barely) surviving. It's getting better (occasionally) but we're still going through bumps in the road. That's the thing about life, isn't it? The ups and downs? As the saying goes, the only thing good about hitting rock bottom is that you only have one way to go... UP! I can't believe it's already halfway into January. Where is the time going? I thought time flies ...
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 I started walking for exercise in October. Only now am I slowly looking at my surroundings as I go for my (almost) daily walks.  Just a few weeks ago, my goal was to just get the steps in, go as fast as I can, just push through for the sake of exercise.  Lately, I have been able to open my eyes and see the happenings of the world around us.  So often, we are consumed with our lives - the issues, the responsibilities, the daily grind - that we are oblivious to anything outside of ourselves. I am definitely guilty of that.  But here I am now, only 3 months into my new exercise routine, that I am able to enjoy the birds perched on a branch, a mushroom growing on the trunk of a tree, random chickens in the middle of a public park grazing (where did they come from?).  I have been drowning in my own problems that I wasn't able to free my mind from the repetitive restraints I have been putting on myself. But! Today, I decided that I needed a creative outlet. I ne...
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