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 This is a L O V E L Y local magazine

The photographs are amazing and the stories and places covered 

really highlight the best of the best in our beautiful wild state.

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If. . .  ( continued )

you shovel your leaves instead rake them :)

you don't eat breakfast. . the highly suspect "most important meal of the day"

you love the smell of leaf piles. . wet and just starting to decompose. . but still ALIVE smelling.

you don't like to read. . but you LOVE pictures.

garlic and blanket soup anyone?

last week we packed up and went for a hike hike with the littles

. . we stopped first to pick up fresh doughnuts from a little 

shop nearby that's been around longer then i've been alive. 

the sight and smell and taste of handmade fresh doughnuts

in a little white paper bag.. . .

happiness.

 

on a walk through a favorite spot a week or so back

we saw this written on an olde tomb stone from the 1800's

it was a girl who had died when she was just 19 years old.

it really went deep into my heart and i love it so and had to pass it on.

If

 

if you can..

see

walk

run

breathe freely without pain

bend over

sit comfortably

 if you can fall asleep

if you can stay asleep

if you can read this

if you can think before you speak

if you can speak

 

 if you were hugged often as a child

and told " i love you" even more often

if you are able to love others freely

without expecting anything in return

if you know what that means. . . really

if you can cook at least ten meals well

if you can bake a cake from scratch

if you have food to eat

if you have food.. to share.

if you can keep it together in front of someone. . anyone. . 

who needs you to be stronger then they are

 if you can laugh.. . instead of punch something.. . and shake it off. . 

and move PAST it.

 if you go barefoot in the gritty sand that meets the sea

if you let yourSELF get dirty. . . often

if you don't care who might see you just sit there . . and close your eyes.

if you can sing.

if you can't. 

if you know where im going with all this. . 

. . . but

.. just if.

you can fill in the rest.

more to come....