Love Note from Meg

Tending Your Winter Garden 1/6/25

Tending Your Winter Garden 1/6/25

A lot of us are waking up into a deep freeze this morning, perhaps gazing softly out over a blanket of newly fallen snow.  Winter is my least favorite season, yet with the first big snowfall, I find myself back in my 7 year old self, delighting in the wonder of this overnight miracle.   Everything stands still for a moment (or at least in Virginia, it does).   And that is what I love so very much about January.  The pause.  READ MORE

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That's a Wrap 12/30/24

That's a Wrap 12/30/24 And so, here we are.  The holidays sitting fully in the rear view mirror once again, and 2024 nearly tucked into bed for its final slumber.   Wasn't it grand?  Well, not all of it, yeah I know.   But there was some really good stuff, right?   I have a little group exercise for our Love Note flock.   Will you join me?   Please?   Ok, thank you, I knew I could count on you.   And YAY - there's a prize at the end.   Here we go, now all together, take a deep breath in, and let's collectively - all 3000 of us strong - lean back, close your eyes, tilt your face up, and without pausing to think, rattle off five fabulous moments of 2024.  Play them out in your mind's eye like a video montage, using your best film director imagination and full technicolor special effects.  READ MORE

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Excitement 12/23/24

Excitement 12/23/24 Who remembers the Pee Wee Herman Show and his "word of the day"?  I know he was naughty, but he was also pretty darn funny.  Today's word of the day is EXCITEMENT.

I woke up this Saturday morning, a plethora of presents yet to wrap, groceries yet to be gathered, and not the greatest night's sleep yet again.  My eyelids sprung open to this thought, "Oy, I have to get that Love Note written before my boys come home".   I sprang  to my desk, R. Clement Moore style.    And there I sat, in my nightshirt, sans cap, staring out the sunroom window.  Lower jaw agape.  Nothing.   Proverbial pencil tapped my lower lip.   And then, after some time, something seemed to shift.   NO, it's not "I have to" write this note, it's actually "I get to".  I get to sit down, and take some time out from the happy holiday frenzy, to focus on a few words which just might incite a small moment of joy or inspiration.   I get to do this.  Every week.  Wow.  Now that does get me excited.  You know of course that it works for me too.  READ MORE

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