“Be mindful. Be grateful. Be positive. Be true. Be kind.” Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart This year, I have found it harder and harder to motivate myself to get up and go in the mornings. Not that I am not functional, but that I feel I have lost some of the joy.…
April 23: Cowles Mountain hike
“Keep close to Nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean” – John Muir Nothing quite like a hike up the mountain to wash the spirit clean! Was another beautiful morning, and thought we would change it up, so…
April 22: Beach date with Riley
“If I have free time, I want to go to the beach…Live a little bit of life” – James Wan Could not have asked for a more perfect morning for the beach – no ocean mist, lowest-of-low tides, all the space in the world to chase the ball! I was not able to honor our…
October 27: Make sure to vote!
“The vote is the most powerful nonviolent tool we have.” – John Lewis So, some other pretty momentous things happened this year. Our whole family have become US citizens, and with that can now cast our votes! This is probably one of the most fundamentally important things to do as a citizen of a country…
October 26: New mug for the collection
“Smell the roses. Smell the coffee. Whatever it is that makes you happy.” – Rita Moreno I know I said that my collection is done because I have filled my board up…but I couldn’t resist the new SDSU starbucks mug…so I had to get it. Pretty cool that I get a Starbucks mug for the…