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Day 5: Pursuing Possibilities in Oregon, one step at a time
This quote is a good reminder for me today. I’ve spent the past few days in the suburbs of Portland, driving to and from several towns hoping to find an area where I’d like to live. Nothing feels right yet. It’s a bit discouraging sometimes, but I’ve just started this journey of pursuing possibilities. I…
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Day 1: Pursuing Possibilities in Oregon ~
I flew to Oregon today! On the flight I sat next to a couple who are native Oregonians. They gave me some good info about towns in Oregon. After we landed & exited the plane, I heard lovely, live piano music as I entered the Portland Airport. I walked toward the music & saw a…
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Walking into the unknown
I plopped down on my therapist’s soft, cozy couch for another weekly session after leaving my husband. It was a sunny March afternoon in 2014. Soon I would be turning 60. My kids were grown & gone and I had finally faced the reality that our marriage was not a marriage anymore, despite many years…
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Pursuing Possibilities …
It all started with an Osprey … It all started that day I saw an Osprey in a tree. I hadn’t seen one since I lived in Oregon, over 40 years ago. It was a lovely spring day in Southern California, near a small town that overlooked the ocean. I arrived early to attend a…
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Keep it simple
These three little words posted on my calendar often make me smile when my mind is swirling with thoughts and to do lists. Keep it simple somehow brings me back home. I pause, take a deep breath, and begin again. Keep it simple reminds be to ask myself how important is it? And perspective usually…
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Learning & Loving
“In my life, I have found two things of priceless worth—learning and loving. Nothing else—not fame, not power, not achievement for its own sake—can possibly have the same lasting value. For when your life is over, if you can say ‘I have learned’ and ‘I have loved,’ you will also be able to say ‘I…
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Red Shoes
Tell us about your favorite pair of shoes, and where they’ve taken you. Red shoes have been my favorite, ever since I first watched Dorothy wear red shoes in the Wizard of Oz when I was only three years old. I can’t remember if Mom bought me red shoes when I was a child, but…
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Patience with the process….
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. ~ Lao Tsu For most of my adult life I’ve been told to be “patient with the process.” What does that mean? I thought, as I hurried through my day as a busy mother, wife, career woman, & Girl Scout leader for my daughter’s troop. I wanted…
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Shifting Gears ⚙️
Hello – It’s been quite a while since I wrote something here. Some of you may remember me as a parenting coach & workshop leader. In 2019, a few years after my kids were grown & gone, and my mom died, and my divorce was done, I decided to shift gears in a new direction:…
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Adventures in Sailing: A Metaphor for Life
Originally posted on EVELYN KRIEGER: You need wind in your sail and the boat will move forward. When was the last time you took up an unfamiliar sport or hobby? As adults, we tend to stick with what we are good at. It’s fun to learn something new as long as we don’t have to…
Linda Marie Marten
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