Celebrate Today : March 2025

Monday, March 31, 2025

March Twenty-Twenty-Five

If you don't do anything else today as we mark the last day of March, listen to this grounding song:
https://youtu.be/M_SVXJg8nqk?si=8Wr67O6ZgRdVsxru

I want to be where my feet are.
I want to breathe the life around me
I want to listen as my heart beats
Right on time…
I want to be where my feet are.
I chase my worries
I flee my sorrows
But what you give me
Is now
So take my burdens
And my tomorrows...
I want to be where my feet are
I want to breathe the life around me
I want to listen as my heart beats
Right on time…
I want to be where my feet are
I run to capture
The next horizon
But what you give me
Is here.
I get no farther
And still I find you
I want to be where my feet are
I want to be where my feet are
The ground below me
Is how you hold me
I want to be where my feet are

Capitol Hill Wishing Tree

Dress Like Your Favorite Song Title

Thank you, Judi Dench, for these wonderful words as I celebrated fifty-two years around the sun:
"Don’t prioritize your looks my friend, as they won’t last the journey.
Your sense of humor though, will only get better with age.
Your intuition will grow and expand like a majestic cloak of wisdom.
Your ability to choose your battles, will be fine-tuned to perfection.
Your capacity for stillness, for living in the moment, will blossom.
Your desire to live each and every moment will transcend all other wants.
Your instinct for knowing what (and who) is worth your time,
will grow and flourish like ivy on a castle wall.
Don’t prioritize your looks my friend,
they will change forevermore, that pursuit is one of much sadness and disappointment.
Prioritize the uniqueness that make you you, and the invisible magnet that draws in other like-minded souls to dance in your orbit.
These are the things that will only get better."

"Cherishing is love with its sleeves rolled up. Let's get to it." -Gregory Boyle

Sunday, March 30, 2025

Shiny Happy People

This old song title from R.E.M. comes to mind when thinking about these amazing humans we got to spend time with on Saturday night for dinner...

James B & Renee Notkin, Renee and Justin Sundberg, Julie and Mike Metzgar

Saturday, March 29, 2025

Where do you feel most alive?

Upon hearing this question recently, these photos are my current response.....

trail run in Bellingham on Saturday

birthday run for Della

in Bow near the Breadfarm bakery

Friday, March 28, 2025

Fan Girl

Father Gregory Boyle came to Seattle Prep to speak this week, and a group of us went to soak up his wisdom and his delight. What a treat to get to meet him in person too and snap this shameless selfie with him!