Linda Marie Marten

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  • Grateful for all the kind people in this world

    As I look back over my journey, especially the past few weeks in Oregon, I am deeply touched by the amount of kindness I received from so many people, some I hadn’t seen in over 50 years and some were total strangers who welcomed me and treated me as a friend. One friend even opened…

  • Day 14: Mission Accomplished ~Town found

    It’s been quite a journey the past two weeks here in Oregon, looking for a town where I’d like to live. It has been exciting, exhausting, and worth all the effort despite periodic times of despair & fear that I might not find any suitable town for me in Oregon. Just when I was about…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Pursuing Possibilities …

    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…

  • Keep it simple

    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…

  • Learning & Loving

    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…

  • Red Shoes

    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…

  • Patience with the process….

    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…