My hope was that some amazing idea would spring forth during my 40 days so that I could launch a writing project and really dive into in the coming months. No genius idea came to me unfortunately, BUT I haven't given up yet. The Lenten project is complete and I learned from it. I learned how hard honesty is. I learned how much I love TV and exercise. I learned that a lot can occur in just a day's time - AND so, if I live in a way that rushes rushes rushes, I do actually lose pieces of myself when I build in no time to reflect, meditate, pray, read, write. And likely life will always be busy. There weren't that many days that it felt super easy to make time to calm down and write. But I always felt grateful when I tried. So, that's all the genius I got for today. I want to keep trying to show up. It may look different, but I hope to post three times a week and we'll see what comes. Thank you to anyone tracking with me. My word for the year still remains important to me - Attentiveness - so I will ask God what it looks like to continue in that and how I can share it in the coming months.

I really really love flowers. And sunshine. And when Stephen prunes a tree and I have this happy accident of beauty on my dining room table.

Cheers.