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Barcelona Street Art - March 2025 in Barcelona

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Street art is such a bold and brave form, throwing it up there in the shared space, creating a comment or a decoration or a critique or a combination for the shared culture, the shared commute, the shared conversation. Vulnerable and free, open for everyone to enjoy or hate, ready for whatever.Ā 

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Video Games: Fear, Curiosity, and the Art of Listening

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Most parents struggle with video games in one way or another. I hear this question all the time. Video games and "screen time" are some of the most talked-about themes in parenting conversations. Now, I am doing something about it. This is the first in a series on the subject. Join me for some basic thoughts and strategies on the subject.

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The Snapshots we don't take and the impressions they leave - March 2025 in Barcelona

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Barcelona wasnā€™t sunsets and music. It was rainā€”21 out of 23 days of it. It was getting sick, the dogs getting sick, and working on personal projects. It was also a marathon we didnā€™t run but felt deeply, long stubbern walks instead of Ubers and the metro, culinary adventures in a kitchen with a holy view.

It was working with what is, and enjoying the process. It was Real Life in the Dreamlife.

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Rewriting Motherhood: Do We Need New Stories?

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We live by the stories, we can imagine, we understand through the lens of eyes of heroes and victims and witches and kings and everyone else from the world of stories, we absorb through our lives. And I just realised, we REALLY need some new stories, or to re-tell some old ones. Do you know a good one?

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Finhan and Montauban: Focus in France February 2025

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In Finhan, where we live in February 2025, not much is happening. The church in the square strikes its hour, funnily enough, twice, so if you didn't quite remember to count the first time, you get another chance. Pretty nice. Pretty peaceful. Not even that to stress about. The pigeons take off poetically from the open bell tower, audibly flapping their wings across the usually completely blue sky, in the silence their shared wingbeats are a whisper of presence.

It's nice to just be.

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When Life Gives You Lemons - Journal January 2, 2025

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There is this saying about lemons: if life throws them at you, just make lemonade. But really?! To me, it sounds like bullshit. When life gives you lemons, deal with lemons.

Take a bite and let the aroma of the oils in the skin be a bit too much, the bitterness hard to process, and the acidic juice sting in the thin skin on the side of your mouth. Why would I make lemonade?

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The Fox and The Arch Angel - Journal December 20th, 2024

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Sometimes, we have to stay very clear and keep the spirit very open when the Universe is talking, and there is a delay in the translation. This is a story of a recent spiritual experience and a sharing of how I function in a world of guidance, how it all works, and how I stay sane in a pretty crazy world.

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Lifeskills 303 - Journaling December 16th, 2024

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Do I even have time to journal when there are just nineteen minutes until the next podcast recording? Iā€™ve just had a fascinating conversation with Jakob Nordby, an American with Norwegian roots who helps aspiring writers discover who they truly are. We talked about transformational journeys, and I found myself perhaps frustratedā€”or more accurately, having an insightā€”that transformation can become a bit addictive, an irritating goalā€”like a drug, a form of self-improvement, or a cleansing ritual.ā€¦

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The Humble Way Forward - Journaling December 12th, 2024

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When the difference between what you want the world to look like and how you perceive it is big enough, there will be pain.Ā 


There is no way around it.Ā 


I have learned that, and I am usually very good at not being too attached to a version of reality, just leaning into truth and love and what is: Receiving what the Big Mystery is throwing at me.Ā 


But what if The Big Mystery is talking, and the perceived reality does not align? This is a new situation for me, a new question, a problem I ā€¦

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Saving the Crashing Days - Journaling December 6th, 2024

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Sometimes, I feel dwarfed by life, humbled, overwhelmed, confused, run over. I can fly for a long time, lean into love, and trust the process, and then suddenly - as if out of nowhere, my inner peace seems like hit by a truck, my confidence smeared out over the pavement, and my anchor withered as if a thousand years of oxygen and salt had a go at it, but in an instant.

And then I get stuck. Where to begin? With the yoga or the laundry? With the writing or the reading? With the conversations or ā€¦

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MOR International - Journaling December 2nd 2024

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When I shop for food, I often grab a box in the veggies department instead of a basket. It's easy. When it is full, I am done. Yesterday, my husband pointed out this logo on a box sitting on my bed: MOR International.

All the Danes got it immediately, but for the rest of you, MOR means MOTHER in Danish.

So here we go. I can so relate. That is what I am now. MOR international. My mothering has changed as we have become nomadic. I feel deeply alive, I think I was allways a gypsie, a traveler, anā€¦

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Is time really flying? Krakow November 2024

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Walking back home through Krakow one last time, I contemplate the concept of time and whether it is flying. I carry a liter of laundry detergent from the organic shop as I walk in light rain with the teenagers. We have been in Krakow for a month; this is the last full day. Tomorrow, we will spend the day packing, and we will leave in the early afternoon.

This morning, we saw the Maria Cathedral on the main square for the second time; this time, we saw the opening of the altar, a most beautiful ā€¦

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