thirty days of thankfulness: 11/3/13

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make new friends but keep the old, one is silver and the other's gold. we used to sing this song at the end of our girl scout meetings, and only now as an adult do i fully comprehend those words i belted out (probably off- key) so many years ago. like the metals of gold ...

the power of yes

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lately i've been dwelling on the concept of intentionality. google is telling me this isn't a word, so i'm going to rephrase it and say that i've been dwelling on the concept of being intentional. letting your yeses be yeses and your nos be nos. while i'm by no means an expert on this topic, i'd like ...

boomerang

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when you live a mere fifteen minutes from your childhood home, it's pretty easy to take a walk down memory lane. and sunday seemed a good of time as any to take said stroll. well, that, and my mom had desperately been trying to get me to clean out the left-over contents from my formative ...

silver & gold

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relationships are funny, i think. and i'm not just talking about the kind that involve a candle-lit dinner and a kiss on the cheek -i'm talking about friendships, and bonds shared with family, and well, of course, the romantical kind, too (hi, this is shawnaleeann.com we're talking about, duh). i'm talking about the ones you ...

dark skies, full hearts

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after back-to-back weekends of gallivanting in cities other than my own (#firstworldproblems), i was quite looking forward to a quiet two-day work-vacay at home. and when the weatherman (see also: my iPhone weather app) predicted sub-seventy degree temps, cloudy, with a chance of meatballs sprinkles, i may or may not have done a few chandler-inspired happy dances ...

let’s getz married

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i've never done drugs (i'm sure that's how you expected this post to commence, isn't it?) but i have to believe that coming off of that high is pretty terrible. so this feeling of utter depression and withdrawal must be the cause of coming off of the high of one of the most perfect collection of ...

penning a new future

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i have learned that life doesn't come with a reset button. and though she sang a lovely song about her attempts at finding one, cher did not find a way to turn back time. but despite the fact that "be kind, please rewind" doesn't apply to life's events, on occasion, if we're lucky, we are doled out ...

fanning the flames

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my high school experience probably looked different from yours. much different in fact. but i wouldn't change it for the world. there's a badge of honor that comes with both surviving and thriving as a big fish in a little pond for for a portion of your life. and the people you share that ...

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