Category: the Friday exhale (Page 14 of 19)

The Friday Exhale: 5 Thoughts on the Week

Hi there! Welcome once again to our quirky, fun, personal assortment of odds and ends that have percolated through and added flavour to our lives this week.

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What do you do with old mugs you like, but whose handles have broken off? Do you throw them away? or do you repurpose them? For me, it depends on the mug. Some have a brief moment on stage and then disappear behind the curtain or into the charity bag or the garbage can. These two are a reminder of the radical change in my life’s journey when I decided to “dare to be different” and brave and go to university at 40. Now they sit beside my green pens, which are another reminder of how my life was transformed. – Maria

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The Friday Exhale: 5 Thoughts on the Week

Another quirky, hopefully fun and interesting, assortment of what we have been thinking about and smiling about this week . . .

 By the way, has this happened to you? When my children and I played Monopoly when they were little, I would deliberately let opportunities pass by so that one of them would win. As they got older, it became an open secret and then annoying to them: what kind of victory is it when your mother kinda cheats to let you win?! So I stopped doing it, which was an adjustment for them. Oh. She can use strategy and win. She’s not always a softie after all. I think they would agree that playing Monopoly is more interesting now: more honest, more challenging and more fun. – Maria

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