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Michelle
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"A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one’s neighbor — such is my idea of happiness." ~Leo Tolstoy This week has brought me many blessings including: morning walks that remind me to keep my chin up, sore muscles, restful sleep, home cooked meals, good conversations with new friends, flannel and boot weather, cow chasing, leaf raking, good coffee shared with friends, truck bed cruisin', fresh jam, avocados, sunsets, and shower scrubbin'. But, most importantly, this week has showed me that this world is more beautiful and forgiving than I could have ever imagined, and for this I am eternally grateful. I hope your week was filled with the things you needed and things to make you smile! <3, Michy P.S. YOU MADE IT Other scenes from the week: (To see what I was up to last fall click: here
Dear Fall Break, YOU ARE HERE! Thank you for annually giving me the time to play, step back, recharge, and refocus for the last eight weeks of the semester. I am grateful for you. Dear Twinner, I like getting texts from you at 11 pm asking if we've ever gone to Chuck-e-Cheese. Your sense of curiosity blesses me. (My answer: maybe?) Dear Blue Ridge Parkway, I've found myself climbing your mountains these past eight weeks more often than I ever thought I would. Thank you for your colors, wind, clouds, overlooks, randomly placed bathrooms, and hills. Dear Autumn, welcome to Western North Carolina. I hope you stay for a while. Dear Maya Angelou, thank you for teaching about caged birds. Caro Mamma, ti amo, ti amo, ti amo. Thank you for your phone calls, for sending me tomatoes from our garden, and your joie de vivre. Don't stop calling. Dear Tupelo, you are as sweet as the honey you are named after. Thanks for keeping me company this weekend. With love for you, thoughts of lentils, and gratitude for new friendships,
Michy #CHALLENGEALERT: This week write a letter to someone you miss, someone you love, someone you haven't spoken to in a while, or just someone and send it to them! I'm sure it will make them smile :) "It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see." ~Henry David Thoreau
All my love and more, Michelle The only way to get through week 8 is one step at a time. "What is home? My favorite definition is “a safe place,” a place where one is free from attack, a place where one experiences secure relationships and affirmation. It’s a place where people share and understand each other. Its relationships are nurturing. The people in it do not need to be perfect; instead, they need to be honest, loving, supportive, recognizing a common humanity that makes all of us vulnerable." ~Gladys Hunt from Honey for a Child's heat This weekend I spent time in the mountains with my Aunt Patti and Uncle Rob.
Together we: climbed the highest peak east of the Mississippi ate delicious potatoes at (almost) every meal sampled local brews discovered new Asheville area favortie: restaurants, street performers, book stores, and wine contemplated buying motorcycles and took pictures of our feet. I'm grateful for the time I was given with them this weekend! What did you do this weekend? All my love and more, Michelle Today I spent my afternoon climbing trees and picking crab apples to make cider.
I am blessed. <3 Michelle "You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That’s the only thing you should be trying to control." ~Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
"But if you've really learned how to think, how to pay attention, then you will know you have other options. It will actually be within your power to experience a crowded, hot, slow, consumer-hell-type situation as not only meaningful, but sacred, on fire with the same force that lit the stars--compassion, love, the subsurface unity of all things. Not that that mystical stuff's necessarily true: The only thing that's capital-T true is that you get to decide how you're going to try to see it." ~David Foster Wallace, This is Water Sometimes my thoughts never stop, Michy Dear Brother Bear, Happy 26th Birthday!! Thank you for filling my world with love and laughter <3 I love you to Italy and beyond! The Beers eyes. They're killer.
See you soon, brother, Michy Yesterday I spent the majority of my day doing service at Loving Food Resources which is a food pantry for individuals living with HIV/AIDS or in home hospice care.
The service component of the Triad consistently provides my most energizing, moving, and powerful experiences here at Wilson and yesterday was no different. Here are the other organizations I've done service with since coming to Wilson: Johnston Elementary Community Garden Haywood St. Congregation South Asheville Cemetery Association INSULATE Hall Fletcher Elementary School Earn and Learn Care Partners Vance Elementary Peace Garden and Spring Festival Riverlink Room in the Inn I hope your Sunday is bright and sunny like mine! Michelle |
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