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June 23 2013:
Team TLC Purge Fest Summer 2013 has begun …. Every Sunday until we’ve gone through the entire house and garage we are cleaning, purging, simplifying!! The party starts in Thomas’ room, then moving on down the hallway! Here we go …..
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June 23 2012:
Lillian made this yesterday while we were out running errands …. She asked me to share it with y’all …. A song titled “You Can Believe In Yourself” …
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June 10 2012:
PERFECT day for adventures in outdoor art activities!!! Ahhhhhhhh!!!!
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June 6 2016:
After dinner walk yesterday …. Trees, leaves, ladybugs, one cormorant, gusty wind, sitting, walking, talking, listening …. And the learning and discovering continues.
Cormorant – Now I know your name … I took a picture of this one a couple of weeks ago in what I now know as the “bat pose” and have learned that they do that to dry their wings. So cool!
Today’s walk with me theme … Delivered by turtle: Continue to walk your path in peace and stick to it with determination and serenity. xoxo
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After dinner park fun last night. Took our book and did our nightly read together with nature. What a GREAT book too!
Thomas’s favorite part was being a bowling pin while Lillian and I used the soccer ball as a bowling ball. Lillian’s favorite part was the sunset and throwing the frisbee.
My favorite part. Nature + reading + Thomas & Lillian + frisbee and made up bowling game with a Thomas pin = sweet love nectar for the soul. Part 1
June 8 2016:
After dinner walk with Thomas last night. He chose to cross the water over the rocks instead of using the foot bridge.
And didn’t know I was already there waiting. This was his face when he saw me.
The joy on his face sums up our walk. He finally got to see the blue billed duck and we both got to see the pelican out of the water. Those blue billed ducks are too quick for an iPhone picture.
We talked, we sat, we walked, Thomas made me a leaf hat, a happy, happy dog joined us for a few seconds …. And, huge bonus, the sprinklers were on as we neared home.
That was a truly wonderful and blissful walk. xoxo
“Continue to walk your path in peace and stick to it with determination and serenity.” ~Me
I had just asked Mother Nature what, if any, message there was for me on this particular walk. Right after that I spotted this lovely turtle sunning on a rock.
“In moments of stillness and acute quietness, when the noisy mind is devoid of the chaotic business of thinking, an awareness of another dimension reveals itself. It is a dimension of union; the viewer and that being viewed are one. It is the ending of isolation.” ~ Del Wynn, Ack Poetically (Discovered this beautiful quote in The Curious Nature Guide)
June 10 2016:
“Look! I’m on a rock!” … Lillian notices and is intrigued by shadows like no one I’ve ever known. She notices and points them out EVERYWHERE!
Such a peaceful and serene walk last night. We played with shadows, admired the white goose, and got caught in the sprinklers.
Also got a picture of her crossing the bridge without holding my arm!!! YAY!!
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June 17 2014:
Thomas has been at summer day camp the past 2 days and REALLY, REALLY wanted to stay overnight. It’s a day camp and residential camp. I’ve decided to let him. What an adventure with feelings making this decision as he’s going next week too. I surrendered to it with the knowing that I’ve hopefully taught him discernment with my words and actions. This is an amazing opportunity for him in such a truly AWEsome setting. Shoot! When I dropped him off and picked him up the past two days, I wanted to stay. So peaceful, quiet, and simply glorious! Thank you Great Basin Naturalists for having Thomas this week, next week and for a week later in July! xoxo
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June 16 2015
Lillian’s latest blog post is about carnations …. I LOVE seeing these little treasures in my email inbox!! You can sign up to receive them in yours too using the link on her website. xoxo “The meanings of carnations include fascination, distinction, and love. Like many other flowers, different messages can also be expressed with the flower’s different color varieties. Light red carnations, for example, are often used to … ” Read more here –https://lilliandarnell.com/…/21/nature-research-for-carnati…/
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Ms. Audrey from HDMS stopped by this morning to deliver two more of Lillian’s writing journals. What an absolute treasure!! Such creative story writing. Thought you’d get a kick outta this one Rachel Jane Flower. She was writing about the first time we came up and went swimming and mentioned you! xoxoxo
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June 14 2014:
Team TLC brought our hands to the library! Happy hands!
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June 13 2013:
“Your the bravest person under the moon” -Thomas just said to me.
If you only knew my sweet little man, If you only knew!! LOVE that kid! Caught Lillian’s cold, been blowing my nose all day. My nose is red and it kinda hurts and this lovely young man tells me this! Bless his old wise soul to pieces! So …. I pass his message on to YOU!!! YOU are brave, braver than you let your self believe!!
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June 13 2012:
Jog-a-thon adventures for Team Member T!!!
For all y’all who have been receiving your book in the last week … Here’s the Video Journey to accompany the book … Hope y’all enjoy!!!
Another shipment of books headed out. Isn’t our Reno sky beautiful?!! Love, Love, Love!!
Lillian’s turn for a haircut. We LOVE Nicole!!!
Had our monthly WOW get together tonight!!! Here’s to my awesome Wildly Outrageous Writer girlfriends!! Thank you Susan for bringing the yummy Wine Shop at Home Champagne from Bev Saunders to toast my book being DONE and published!! We had so much FUN laughing tonight y’all! I am blessed by these women and so dang grateful to have them in my life!!
Most of you know that Lillian has a speech impairment … My day is filled with constantly telling her I don’t know what she’s saying …. Sometimes I choose to make us both laugh and repeat back what I heard her say …. Tonight what I heard … “Can I have a multi-pass?” What she actually said, “Time has gone fast.” We both got a good ole laugh outta that one!! Told her I was out of multi-passes!!
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June 12 2012:
Here’s to Team TLC!!!
