Category: Reflections
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Scheduling slow time when you’re the busiest
“The best time to relax is when you don’t have time for it”. Sydney J. Harris September has been the busiest I have ever been, in the most beautiful of ways. This month began on the beaches of Southern France, and will end in the mountains of Alberta. In between, I’ve planned and hosted…
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The meet cute story of how I met my husband
“Do you think the universe fights for souls to be together? Some things are too strange and strong to be coincidences.” Emery Allen They say that life is a sum of all your choices. I believe that sometimes, choice and destiny cross each other, and a new story begins at that intersection. That fateful crossing…
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The last summer of my Thirties
You are a soul who needs music, connection, sunsets, laughter, and small pockets of joy. Prioritize them like your life depends on it because it does. Vex King I will be turning 40 in September, which means that this Summer is the last one of my Thirties. Soon, somewhere in the constellations, Summer sunsets and…
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Tattoos and sundresses
I did something very out of character the other day. Something completely unlike me. I got tattooed for the first time. Getting the tattoos wasn’t the part that was out of character. I’ve been wanting to get one for a while now, and in light of my upcoming 40th birthday, I planned on getting it…
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Springtime Sabbatical
An unplanned sabbatical became an invitation to embrace slow living, spend more time in nature, and rediscover what matters most beyond work.
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A day of imagination at the Royal Botanical Gardens & Dundurn Castle
“There is always music amongst the trees in the garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it.” Minnie Aumonier In my quest to escape the winter funk last month, I planned a play date with my girlfriends at the Royal Botanical Gardens and Dundurn Castle in Hamilton. The goal was to create…
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The sunrises in our backyard
“The whole sky had looked like gold, she said, and as for the clouds! Well, their beauty was beyond description. They floated in red and violet splendor over her head”. Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid When we were putting together our must-have list for our realtor, the most important feature was to have windows…
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Pancakes and a stormy walk
A winter storm had been forecasted for the weekend so aside from coffee in bed and blueberry pancakes for brunch, nothing beyond that had been planned for the day. We were watching a blurry backdrop as we feasted on our pancakes. Sharp lines of blues and browns were replaced by smudges of white. The trees…
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My big moments & lessons of 2024
2024 was a handful. This year contained a lot of extraordinary accomplishments and milestones, most notably buying our first home and celebrating 10 years since meeting my husband. This year also contained a lot of heaviness. Job loss, health scares amongst family and friends, interpersonal challenges with people we care about and a whole lot…
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A time traveling journal
I recently re-read some old entries in my lilac coloured journal that I filled in 2020, and it made me realize something I never considered about journaling. Journals are like a time travel machine. Made of paper, ink, curves and lines of alphabets, journals craft the contents that lived in your heart at a specific…
