celebrate life
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How Cake Accompanies the Best Love Stories
No one told me how perfect it feels to carry a cake alight with birthday candles to the sound of a family singing Happy Birthday. Or how happy I’d feel shielding the candles and seeing the faces of those I love most dearly through the flickering flame. It’s so familial and so intimate. I always… Continue reading
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This Was 28 – Birthday Reflections
It was the first year I noticed how enchanting it was when spring shifted into summer. There was this charming haze that seemed to hover just above all the yellowed grass. Life was flying in the air, the dandelions (and some of them huge!) were a quiet parade along the roadside, and, of course, there… Continue reading
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No Other Season Finds Me Quite Like This…
We should have done it years ago. Planting fruit trees that is… But we dragged our feet awhile before getting down to business with peach, plum, and apple. What I didn’t know until now is even though a fruit tree won’t bear fruit for years upon getting it first in the ground, seeing the fruit… Continue reading
