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Gifts of Potholders and Poetry

So fellow travelers, listen up: “We are currently experiencing some heavy turbulence.  The Captain has turned on the seat belt sign.  Please fasten your seat belts and for your comfort and safety we ask that you remain seated for this part of the trip.” Most of the time, Life does not provide us with a […]

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by on May 1, 2015  •  Permalink
Posted in Bedlam Farm Creative Group, Family and relationships, Guest Posts, Sisterhood and friendships, The quest for Inner Peace
Posted by Deborah H Rahalski on May 1, 2015

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Love Lights the Way

So fellow travelers, dramatic images on the drive home from last weekend’s road trip stirred up many emotions about this stage of Life’s journey for my college-bound daughter and me.  This poem flowed from a heart renewed by friendship’s quiet affirmation of Greater Love which enfolds us all. The road becomes a silver ribbon a […]

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by on April 29, 2015  •  Permalink
Posted in Family and relationships, Poems and Haiku, The quest for Inner Peace
Posted by Deborah H Rahalski on April 29, 2015

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Running at The Ledge: A theory of life and commitment

Honest, authentic writing about what it means for one brave couple to be married.

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by on April 21, 2015  •  Permalink
Posted in Bedlam Farm Creative Group, Family and relationships, Guest Posts
Posted by Deborah H Rahalski on April 21, 2015

https://dhrahalski86.com/running-at-the-ledge-a-theory-of-life-and-commitment/

… on raising grampa

In a world of fractured families it is a gift to find authentic stories of real love and true life…..

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by on April 17, 2015  •  Permalink
Posted in Bedlam Farm Creative Group, Family and relationships, Guest Posts
Posted by Deborah H Rahalski on April 17, 2015

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Amphibious Ambivalence

So fellow travelers, by way of a followup to the Ponderous Thoughts post here is an updated edition of an earlier post from August 2013 about my pond

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by on April 10, 2015  •  Permalink
Posted in Family and relationships, Photography, The quest for Inner Peace
Posted by Deborah H Rahalski on April 10, 2015

https://dhrahalski86.com/amphibious-ambivalence-2/

Hope Whispers

So fellow travelers, lately the weight of life’s passages has weighed heavily on my heart. As I am apt to do when I need to recenter my soul, I went for a walk very early this morning inspite of the snow and wind which greeting me at my back door.  As I walked these words […]

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by on April 4, 2015  •  Permalink
Posted in Family and relationships, Photography, Poems and Haiku, Sisterhood and friendships, The quest for Inner Peace
Posted by Deborah H Rahalski on April 4, 2015

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Swamped by Gratitude

So fellow travelers, as I alluded in a recent post there’s a story to be told about an annual event known as Birdathon. Once a year our local chapter of the Audubon Society holds a day long birding challenge known as the Birdathon. Birders have twenty four hours (midnight to midnight) to find and identify […]

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by on April 3, 2015  •  Permalink
Posted in Bedlam Farm Creative Group, Birdacious tales, Family and relationships, Gratitude, Nature, travel adventures
Posted by Deborah H Rahalski on April 3, 2015

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Lessons of the Crow

So fellow travelers, when I returned home from my recent road trip a package greeted me which I enthusiastically tore open to find…… Yes, Indeed, this is a crow themed handmade potholder. First of all it is handmade by gifted fabric artist Maria Wulf (you can see more of her wonderful work here)  I had […]

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by on March 26, 2015  •  Permalink
Posted in Adventures in Art, Bedlam Farm Creative Group, Birdacious tales, Family and relationships, travel adventures
Posted by Deborah H Rahalski on March 26, 2015

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Eighteen

So fellow travelers, eighteen years ago today an amazing spirit came into my life. She challenges me every day to think outside the box, makes me forever proud for the ways she pushed herself to grow and embrace this adventure we call life.  These words celebrate the gift of being her Mom.  I look forward […]

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by on March 4, 2015  •  Permalink
Posted in Family and relationships, Photography, Poems and Haiku
Posted by Deborah H Rahalski on March 4, 2015

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Snoopy Meets Daft Punk: Finale at Herald Square

So fellow travelers, some of my readers have been asking what happened when the Baldwinsville Marching Band reached  Herald Square.  So we pick up the story as the kids march out of sight, rounding the corner at Columbus Circle, heading, via 59th street,  for Sixth Avenue. As any viewer of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade knows, the final […]

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by on January 26, 2015  •  Permalink
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Posted by Deborah H Rahalski on January 26, 2015

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