{"id":1752,"date":"2014-01-05T05:28:34","date_gmt":"2014-01-05T10:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/?p=1752"},"modified":"2014-01-04T17:46:04","modified_gmt":"2014-01-04T22:46:04","slug":"i-know-like-i-know-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/2014\/01\/05\/i-know-like-i-know-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"I Know Like I Know 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"2013<\/a><\/p>\n

If I had to choose one word to describe 2013 it would be milestone.\u00a0 Blink your eyes and five years of writing about all the ordinary things that will make up a life\u2019s legacy have passed. Time is funny that way, as Gretchen Rubin would say, the days are long but the years are short. It\u2019s a wonderful life here on Stowe Ln with all the things that bread, salt and wine can bring a home.\u00a0 Joy and prosperity are truly reigning over this household and it is quickly becoming that place where more and more of life\u2019s little celebrations are being held so we try never<\/b> to run out of wine.<\/p>\n

The Jersey Girls are happy and healthy and we continue to do our work and thank God each day for the generosity of those who got us here.\u00a0 Life would not have been this wonderful if it weren\u2019t for Shawn Stewart and his kindness and pragmatism. I can still remember asking him; on a scale of 1 \u2013 10 just how bad are the girls, how aggressive.\u00a0 His answer with a smile; a 1 and 1\/2.\u00a0 Fine.<\/p>\n

\"2013<\/a><\/p>\n

As many times as I say I know like I know, this has been the year that I\u2019ve tried to come from that place of \u201cI don\u2019t know what I don\u2019t know\u201d.\u00a0 I\u2019ve shifted my perspective a bit, learned how to be \u201cclenched\u201d and tried some new things.\u00a0 Photo treasure hunts and seminars with cool people like Seth Castile to force my camera back into my hands and consequently my heart.\u00a0 Yes I\u2019ve become a nuisance but the end result is a style, a viewpoint, a continuing illustration of the ordinary.\u00a0 Technical? No. Cool? Sometimes.\u00a0 I\u2019ve begun to capture moments in time as I see them and it\u2019s not like you don\u2019t know how I feel about moments in time.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve had the courage to stop coloring my hair.\u00a0 I\u2019ve gone grey and the end result is so much better than I could have imagined.\u00a0 I have the glintys as I call them.\u00a0 Not quite grey, headed toward salt and pepper and worry free.\u00a0 Hours spent at the salon are a thing of the past and the money saved is a huge bonus.\u00a0 We have abundance here in so many ways.\u00a0 Once you shift your perspective you are no longer looking for abundance in one place, it comes from everywhere and from everyone.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve met some wonderful new old friends this year.\u00a0 We share a common point of view and a love of all things ordinary and special.\u00a0 What a joy to have them in my life.\u00a0 Sadly some people I thought were friends have gone. Either they or I had gotten what was the best of the relationship and moved on.\u00a0 A fact of life I\u2019m afraid, I\u2019ve learned that people will come and go.\u00a0 The important people stay for a very long time and I continue to be grateful for each one of them even if I don\u2019t see them as often as I\u2019d like.<\/p>\n

My family and extended family are flourishing. We had many a celebration this year together for little things and big things.\u00a0 I am still reeling from the wedding of my dear Muriel and Martina.\u00a0 I had the honor of capturing their day in photos and selfishly that meant I could be with them through it all. \u00a0God knows they\u2019ve been with me through it all.<\/p>\n

\"2013<\/a><\/p>\n

Luckily Muriel was with me to assist our neighbor into rehab through an intervention.\u00a0 Five years later it never occurred to me that I might have to put that hat on again.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been known to say I resent what I know about addiction, but the fact is it might have helped save a life.\u00a0 It does all come back to you, the script, the facilities, the beseeching from the intended.\u00a0 Not easy but I was better at it this time, I was removed from the situation and I let it go after it was over.\u00a0 For the most part anyway, the jury is still out on the successfulness of it.\u00a0 Like Bob Seger says, \u201cwish I didn\u2019t know now, what I didn\u2019t know then.\u201d\u00a0 It was a hard life.<\/p>\n

And so it is that making life easier has become a mission. You know, like buying a new sewing machine.\u00a0 It\u2019s cool, it\u2019s light and it does just what I need it to do, I\u2019m not making clothing any more I\u2019m just nipping and tucking.\u00a0 I must say the one feature that I was so smug about, the needle threader broke.\u00a0 I\u2019m not surprised, the reason for it was all wrong.\u00a0 It was just to spite my Aunt Millie who laughed at me a hundred years ago when she handed me a needle to thread for her and I just poked it right through with an eye roll. \u201cI was like you she said\u201d, sent me some karma, and now I\u2019m like her looking for the magnifying glass.<\/p>\n

All in all there has been little to bitch about, there was the Aunt Rant and the poopy bag incident, the Match.com fiasco, the cast iron bra epiphany and the crazy colleague who surely would have been the death of me if he hadn\u2019t been reassigned recently.\u00a0 Thank you karma, I certainly will learn to let you take care of things from now on.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve learned that I never really was a \u201cJersey Girl\u201d even though I was born here, that\u2019s my sister\u2019s department.\u00a0 I\u2019ve learned that I no longer have anything to prove, my only inclination at this point is to add value.\u00a0 I\u2019ve learned that I\u2019m cool, no kidding, it\u2019s true and that what I\u2019m doing with Ordinary Legacy has meaning to some people.<\/p>\n

\"2013<\/a><\/p>\n

I\u2019m going to summon up my courage again this year and develop an e-course based on Ordinary Legacy, that should be an adventure. Talk about being clenched. And finally I\u2019m going to continue to add to my body of work.\u00a0 Can you imagine?\u00a0 I\u2019ve got a body of work.\u00a0 I know like I know that my wildest dreams aren\u2019t really all that wild anymore and that makes this ordinary woman soar, finally.<\/p>\n

\"2013<\/a><\/p>\n

I hope you’ll take a look back at this year’s posts and see if they plant a seed for your own extraordinary legacy.<\/p>\n

Happy New Year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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