Tag: triumph

• Painting in Gray

  The author shares their deep love for Christmas but struggles with feelings of sadness during the season. They reflect on the impact of weather on their mood, the weight of grief around them, and emphasize the importance of acknowledging emotions without the need to fix them.

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  December 22, 2024

  Life

  alone, bright lights, christmas, cloudiness, cloudy, darkness, depression, dimness, ebb, ebb and flow, encouragement, fall, fall blues, family, flow, friends, givelovelievemore, gloominess, God, God cares, gray, grayness, grey, greyness, heart, just for today, Life, live, loneliness, loss, loved ones, mental-health, night, painting in gray, peace, sad, sadness, sun, triumph, winter, winter blues, you are not alone

• redefine success

  My Love and I were in the grocery store the other day, and we started talking about success.  I was disheartened because I felt that I should be further along than I am now.  This is my tenth year teaching, and my choir has yet to qualify for Maryland State Choral Festival (Last year, we were closest than…

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  February 23, 2015

  Life, More

  choir, coconut oil, consistent, festival, normal, perspective, senior year, struggle, sugar, triumph