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It's not just anyone you can meet and go for a 4 (6?) mile hike through muddy forest with. But @_brandiland is actually exactly that person. After months of trying to plan, we caught up in a sprinkle and hiked through the lush green of Forest Park. It's r
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There is something so incredibly tender and delightful about finally hearing @daniwriter read in person. Hugely grateful for her powerful and precious prose and to Powell's for hosting her. #hourglass
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It's sparkling water in a fiestaware mug, updating the planner before diving back into the books, trusting the cards (all of them I pulled), reveling in the cloud-light and succulents of a neighboring office. Outside there is rain and wind and all the thi
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On Sunday night we all went to the park for a picnic dinner. The kiddo ran, the partner read, I studied, and the dog alternated between rascalling and being the best dog ever. At some point, I grabbed this photo. And what I see most is how content she is.
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When the world feels on end, there is always her. #webthornemuppet
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It's my first day as a student in over ten years. And the dog is already trying to eat my homework.
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This is what happens to the #webthornemuppet when we take her to the (muddy) dog park then home for a bath. She becomes #lumpymuppet.
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Forty days after your death, I'm flying back to my home in the PNW. The wide open spaces and blue skies of northern Minnesota cradled my heart in a way I've never experienced before. Some magickal combination of growing up and coming back and seeing my pe
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Thirty five days after you died, I'm back at the coffee shop next to the senior center where we used to dine after church on Sunday mornings. You would never let me pay, and I always felt so open and alive with you. I wanted to always live in that opennes
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PDX✈️MDW✈️MSP, then driving north. There are so many people at the airport at 5am on a Wednesday morning.
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Thirty two days after your death, I found these miraculous flowers at the dog park. Strung together like tiny bells, I wanted to clip giant clumps of them and hang the around my bedroom. But I didn't. See, this thing about you dying is that I don't know
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One month after you died, I wrote you a letter. I realized that so few people could inspire me to make the journey coming this week, the traveling and the returning and the turning new. And in writing to you, I understand why I stopped journaling all thos
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It's a wonder I get anything done at all. #webthornemuppet
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Twenty two days after your death, the tears came. Thick salt lines creating caverns down my cheeks at any moment -- in the shower, flipping eggs for breakfast, when I find the dog chewing apart my nicest headphones. My emotions ride the waves of loss like
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You can take the girl out of Minnesota. In fact, she can run screaming out of the state that taught her so much of what she knows (and so much trauma). But sometimes you can't take the Minnesota out of the girl. And so when two different people called the
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One year ago, I was fretting about packing too many clothes and not waking up for my 4:30am car service to the airport. I could barely sleep. I could hardly eat. My body was so nervous, but my heart was crystal clear. I wasn't flying somewhere new -- I wa
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Eleven months ago, I arrived with an SUV full of memories and a heart cracked wide open with possibility. In a week, we celebrate our first year of love. Some days, I admit I don't quite know how I got here. But through it all, love remains. Here's to lov
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Sometimes life takes a turn you can't quite anticipate. I just finished my fourth day as a full-time employee of @kitchen_kaboodle here in Portland. We're all adjusting to new schedules and new routines, including a #webthornemuppet who's spending more ti
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Sometimes a last-minute costume change feels just so right. #persephone #witchywoman #thereistimeforthis
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#thenewjimcrow, breve mocha, blueberry muffin. Coffee with @tea_austen at one of my favorite places. Monday, you started rough but you're not half bad.
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#Unchaste reading tonight. My love sharing a story of our early days together. My heart broken open by incredible words by women of color. Humbled, grateful, full of light, motivated. #unchastereaders
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Once I wrote a letter to a loved one. In it, I poured out my heart and my fears and my strong sense of moral duty to make a change in the world. I sent it off with nervous excitement and the hope of being witnessed. Then the friend needed to go away, an
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I don't take many selfies. But sometimes, I just want to remember how the light hits my eyes and the way my smile gets so shy and all the silver I am proud to have in my hair.
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I came home from driving Uber and this monkey doesn't want to be put down. #webthornemuppet
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There was a rare moment today when the sun came out. I slowed enough to snap a photo, but just as quickly as I did, the Grey skies returned. Honoring ten months of living in this magickal and engaging place. Pushing myself and being pushed forward in ways
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Playoffs! #gothorns #pdxthorns #nwsl
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It is a bacon and cinnamon rolls, feisty puppy, homemade vanilla latte (#nespressomoment), reading Michelle Alexander's _TheNew Jim Crow_ (thank you @megworden!) kind of Sunday morning.
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Beach essentials. Everything else is sand in the waves. #nofilter #topogofself #witchywoman #thereistimeforthis #webthornemuppet
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Some days you wake up and just say"We are going to the beach." And so you do. #topogofself #thereistimeforthis #webthornemuppet #nofilter
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When life hands you leftover puff pastry and one more Ambrosia apple, you pull out the caramel sauce and make caramel apple mini galettes. Because it's officially Autumn and the puppy is starting a new training regimen and because baking makes me feel lik
