Happy Friday

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Talking about surviving the upside down, inside out, sacred, maddening, exhausting, BREAK-YOUR-WORLD-WIDE-OPEN-BEAUTIFUL journey of parenting is one of my very favorite things. You all have CRACKED ME UP and blessed my  heart this week.

Happy Friday to you and your crews.

See you on Monday as the #SurvivorSeries continues, talking about surviving jealousy, anger, insecurity, and the battlegrounds of our own minds and hearts.

Happy Friday!  Happy 4th!  God bless America. Kate

Happy Friday

It is the first official Friday of summer!

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I hope your weekend is full of things like fresh peaches, ice cream, swim suits, sandals, summer storms, and jars full of fireflies.   I'm traveling for a wedding, so mine will be full of hugs, good tears, and DANCING.

Cheers! I'll see you on Monday as the #SurvivorSeries continues.  Happy Friday!

Kate

Storms and Kisses

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This morning "pre-storm" was in the air.

The hours and minutes before a storm are like negative space.  Like all the molecules in the air arrange themselves into little concave vessels, ready to be filled with with water and wind and electricity.

This morning the sky was dark and green.  The birds were conspicuously absent.  The wind came out to play.

I stood out in it - feeling the wind, the electricity, and the eager, open-armed molecules on my skin and it occurred to me:

The moments before a storm are both empty and full; they are tentative, and charged with invisible energy, like the moments before a kiss.

Happy Friday, friends. Kate