Hand-lettered Love Quotes, Handmade & Heart Motif Inspiration is a lightHEARTED entrance to twelve new chapters. In this fresh new year outstretched before us, it will be difficult to not demand too much from it. Surely many of us will bring grand expectations, intentions, and aims to it. But I was particularly moved by our son’s humble champagne toast as we went around the circle and voiced wishes for 2021. (Remember, he is the son who fought for his life for months in 2020 with a rare blood disorder and the virus).
His toast was simply, “May 2021 be just a little bit better.” Its sheer humility caught me by surprise. For he has learned what it looks like to live moment by moment, to feel gratitude for ordinary days.
I’ll have much more to share with you about heartfulness, about hopes for the new year. But on this blustery, sleeting, cold icy first of January, I’m sharing handmade and heart loveliness.
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New Year, Hand-lettered Love Quotes, Handmade & Heart Motif Inspiration
Just a thought. But since it’s a new year, and we’ve no idea what it will hold…why not begin journaling even if you’ve never ever done it before!?! Here’s a primer for you:
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Hand-lettered Love Quotes
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Mary Oliver on LOVE
NOT ANYONE WHO SAYS
Not anyone who says, “I’m going to be
careful and smart in matters of love,”
who says, “I’m going to choose slowly,”
but only those lovers who didn’t choose at all
but were, as it were, chosen
by something invisible and powerful and uncontrollable
and beautiful and possibly even
unsuitable —
only those know what I’m talking about
in this talking about love.
Peace to you right where you are.
-michele
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Good morning,
Too Soon? A resounding YES!
We haven’t even got Christmas more than five days behind us or turned the page on 2019.
Waaay too soon to focus on the next “retail event”.
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I so agree and totally understand your annoyance! But you have to understand the blogger side. It’s the nature of the beast since the blog is no longer a hobby to report on what I’m doing on a given day (readers have no attention span or interest in that anymore – they want answers to questions they search online.) This blog provides inspiration and resources, and readers are seeking INSPIRATION for the next event NOW, so it’s simply a Google thing – my apologies. 🙂
Hello Michelle. I love your site. I look forward to seeing it every day. Have you ever done a theme or considered doing a theme just on flooring. I love the limestone and wide plank old look flooring and would love to find resources and ideas. Thank you from Debb J
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It’s an awesome idea, Deb. I will have to do some research first but I know plenty of readers would appreciate that topic – thanks so much for reading.
Happy New Year, Michele, to you and your family. Thank you for reminding us that matters of the heart are meant to be on our minds daily.
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Sending light and love and wishes for mercies and comfort to you and yours in 2021! Thank you for reading with such tenderness – it’s an honor to have you here.
Love looking for hearts year round! My mother didn’t want us to buy her birthday presents so I started buying or finding hearts for her … for her birthday or any holiday or occasion which made her happy. Now that she has been gone, I have all those hearts in a corner of my kitchen … a kitchen that I always dedicate to her because of my childhood memories when I sat on a stool and watched her make our meals. … your blog only reminded me of her and those hearts. Thank you and take care! T
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What a blessing you’ve shared, and what a blessing you are. Beautiful memories and what a touchstone you’ll always have. Peace to you.