Category Archives: I’m Thankful for…

Bats in the Big City!

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Greetings family, friends, and virtual co-villagers! I hope you all had a lovely holiday season and are enjoying the New Year. We’ve been busily focused on family time, working on projects, and both mentally and physically preparing for our yearly trek … Continue reading

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Yo-Yo Lessons

Juju has been teaching Xi how to yo-yo. He brought over this lovely classic orange Duncan butterfly — straight out of the 80s — and told the girls he wanted them to be able play with it if they liked. … Continue reading

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I’m Thankful for… Sister Love

These girls love each other so much that I regularly find it both incredible and inspiring. Aside from the everyday normal-sized skirmishes and other random more intense affects of the absolutely unadulterated state of sisterhood — which we, like every … Continue reading

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I’m Thankful for… Community

I just want to give a shout-out to some of the truly awesome people and groups that I’ve had the pleasure to know and be involved with either virtually and/or tangibly in this global community of Natural Parents (there’s innumerable different … Continue reading

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I’m Thankful for… the Moment(s)

Whoa it’s been a few busy weeks! And though it has been fun, and ideal in almost every way — between working, volunteering at our local (but international) documentary film fest, and some serious kid-play, I haven’t had time to keep … Continue reading

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I’m Thankful for…

Today I’m feeling noticeable appreciation for (in no particular order): Natalie. Period. She is the best everything in my life — a wonder to behold, a joy to know, and a dream to be loved by. And as I generally … Continue reading

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I’m thankful for… The (Global) Empathy Hotline!

Hello World. I have some exciting news and gratitudes I’d like to share with you today. First I want to say thanks to Ashoka who created Activating Empathy which held a contest we entered last year with our company Feeleez. Ashoka still … Continue reading

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I’m Thankful for… Feeleez!

Today, Natalie and I are releasing this video: We made this for a workshop with which we were involved a few months back. The organizer wanted some fresh content about Feeleez — that is, not something we’d yet produced or … Continue reading

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I’m thankful for… Winter Wonders

Today I’m feeling thankful for: Montana Winters — long and cold and dark and daunting and powerful and mystical and gorgeous — Spring, Summer, and Fall are wonderful (they are the reasons I live in Montana) but I am convinced … Continue reading

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I’m Thankful for… Screensaver Slideshows

This past Summer when we went to visit my folks — that’s Nana and Grandpa George, to you — we noted that all of their computers go into screensaver mode by starting a random slideshow of pics from their iphoto … Continue reading

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I’m Thankful for… the 12 days of Yule

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Those of you who’ve been reading this blog for the last couple years know this already, but for those of you who may be newer here — our Yule celebrations generally begin on the Solstice and continue on through the … Continue reading

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I’m Thankful for… the Longest Night

I’m so glad I’ve made it. There’s a part of me that begins to carry on a concerned conversation in September every year discussing whether or not I will be able to survive the coming darkness. For those of you … Continue reading

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I’m Thankful for… Family Rituals

One of my favorite things about this family is how we celebrate our Winter Holidays. I love that 5 totally un-Jewish, mostly non-practicing anything, free spirits crowd around the menorah together each night of Chanukah and tell and retell the story … Continue reading

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I’m Thankful for… these Ladies

I’m finding myself wanting to make a little habit of this week-ending gratitude thingy. So I’m here today to offer a few appreciationals about these four amazing ladies in my life. Natalie and Echo were gone this week to Portland … Continue reading

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I’m thankful for… Found (Kid) Objects

This Summer, I was on a search for some “lost” kid item — imagine that — and had the brilliant idea to get a long dowel and use it to sweep out from under the beds which have a mere … Continue reading

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