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What worked for me in 2015.

I love to do a little bit of reflection at year’s end, but I don’t make it complicated. Around my house we use two questions to help us take stock of the year gone by. They are: What worked for me last year? What didn’t? Today I’m sharing a few of the things that worked for me!

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Well, I’ll stop by the free incubator for @jurassicworldalive after the show @amctheatres — now it’s all about @jurassicworld 🦖 •••••• #jurassicworld #jurassicworldfallenkingdom #jurassicworld #bikurgurl #amctheaters #watchingthepreviews #googlemapsrecalculating #googlemapsfail

Happy Summer Solstice! _ Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom opens today and we’re all over it! Tickets for the first show today @ 7pm PST!!! _ So what did we do? We had to bike and play @jurassicworldalive 🦖 _ So many dinosaurs, so little time! Summer fun 🚲☁️ _ Making dinner, then we’re going to @amctheatres to see the movie 📽 _ BTW: @prattprattpratt — you’re my sons favorite actor - both @marvelstudios & @jurassicworld 🦖 Thanks for being such a positive role model 🖤 _ How are you spending your Summer Solstice? •••••• #2018SummerSolstice #jurassicworldalive #gameschooling #gamers #gaming #bikurgurl #bikingfamily #summerfunbegins #interestledlearning #eclecticunschoolers #homeschoolfun #seattlesummer2018

So my son, the Bibliophile, made this awesome dip for us to share for movie night! _ The best images we take are always in natural light, so we rushed outside to get the last of the sun, to take a few shots. _ We ended up doing some goofy shots — but I wanted to get at least one with my garden flowers because food and gardening are just the best 🌿 _ All we were missing was the book to read aloud together 📚 •••••• #foodinthegarden #lastraysofsun #lastraysofspring #chipdip #daisiesinmygarden #chipdipanddaisies #bikurgurl #bikurgurlblog #teachingphotography #learningphotographytogether

It was a thrill to attend an intimate luncheon at Third Place Books Ravenna for the release of Natalie Goldbergs new book, ‘Let The Whole Thundering World Come Home: A Memoir’. _ I tend to lack social skills when meeting authors whose work I admire, so I generally wouldn’t stay to get books signed, but I felt at this beginning of her book release, she would appreciatNatalie However, Natalie’s new book covers her experience, retrospectively, with her cancer diagnosis. _ As a fellow writer, and cancer survivor, I chose to not read the book prior to the event. My feelings can be too raw. _ Though I blame the hormones {HRT: hormone replacement therapy} — I sometimes find myself crying for no outwardly apparent reason, depending on where I am in my HRT cycle. _ Hearing her speak with such humor, earnestness, and heart, I am thankful I attended and am reading the book today — but so far, it rings true to life with my own cancer diagnosis. _ Her initial resistance to treatment is juxtaposed to my resolve of cutting the cancer out. _ Literally. _ Sharing such a personal experience; I’ve found it difficult to share, but I write about it.... _ Letting the words bleed..... •••••• #letthewholethunderingworldcomehome #nataliegoldberg #writingdownthebones #thegreatspring #authorsigning #nataliegoldbergmemoir #cancersucks #bikurgurl #writerswriting #nataliegoldbergluncheon #thirdplacebooks #thirdplacebooksluncheon #thirdplacebooksravenna #atmyhouse

I am thrilled to be reading Natalie Goldbergs latest work while waiting to be seated for a luncheon at Third Place Books with her 📚🖤 _ I’ve found it difficult to want to read her book on her cancer diagnosis because as a cancer survivor, I still find it difficult to go there - articulate the fear, the gratitude, the struggle, and the ongoing recovery. How a cancer diagnosis and treatment changes your life, your world view, your perspective... it’s deeply personal on every level. I’ve been left evaluating many aspects of life, existence, and meaning - belonging - and what that has to do with my next chapter. _ As she says so perfectly, during her treatment, she penned ‘The Great Spring’ where she explored her life, ‘...the poignant corners of it’. _ Yes. This is the ‘Great Spring’ - it just took my cancer diagnosis to see it. _ If you’re a writer, you’ve likely run across her book, ‘Writing Down the Bones’ where she unabashedly gives herself, and by extension us {her students} to just keep writing ✔️ •••••• #justkeepwriting #nataliegoldberg #writingdownthebones #letthewholeworldcomethunderinghome #literaryluncheon #bikurgurl #authorsilove #cancersucks #cancersisters #poignantcornersoflife #writerswriting #writingpractice #authorsofwriting

So my Flex has another flat tire and that was it. I’m in the shop at least monthly, and now I’ll need all new tires. No thank you. _ So we’re trading it in on a Subaru! It’s been a whirlwind day, but exciting to close the chapter on all the mechanical and electric issues we’ve had with the Flex. _ I loved that car, but it’s time to downsize and be free of the monthly aggravation of taking a day or two out of my month at the car shop. _ Freedom: it’s my word of the year! _ Freeing ourselves of the aggravation, huge vehicle, and worry? Awesome. •••••• #subaruforester #2018subaruforester #freedomismywordoftheyear #bikurgurl #bikurgurlblog #newyearnewcar #eastsidesubaru #thewaitwillbeworthit

I asked these guys to come help in the garden, yet they refused! Preferring the warmth of their fluffy bed 🤣 •••••• #darkpaw #darthkemosabevader #darkpawandkemo #rescuedogs #blackrescuedogs #bikurgurl #pnwgardener

My front garden is beginning it’s summer bloom! _ I received many of these in trades at our local Green Elephant, but the Black-Eyed Susan’s were naturalized from the previous homeowner! I’ve divided and spread them around the yard over the past couple of years which has not only helped the plants, but helped fill out all the reclaimed garden space from the horrid homogenous grass! _ Repatriating the garden for wildlife? Oh yes!! _ I’ll be moving our little pumpkin plants to the front yard today as well - the lovely mint patch will keep the rabbits out. _ The front garden is west facing and gets a brutal 8+ hours of hot sun every day July-September, so I plant as much as my husband will allow in the space!! •••••• #gardeningfoodnotgrass #organicgarden #blackeyedsusans #purpleheadedconeflowers #mintgarden #repatriatingtheflowers #bikurgurl #bikurgurlblog #greenelephantgarden #inbloom #inmygarden #organicflowers #urbanorganicgarden #pnwgarden #pnwgardener #intentionalgardening

I haven’t had much time to tend my garden this spring. Between traveling and my horrible allergies, my garden has been left to {basically} fend for itself. _ The good news is I started the garden with a good foundation. I built up the soil with compost, installing Green Elephant plants, ruthlessly weeding and cultivating the soil, not to mention put it to bed this fall. _ Though I have bone meal to spread, the garden has flourished mostly on its own because it was nourished and tenaciously cared for in its infancy. _ I’m hesitant to compare my children to a garden, but getting a good start in life makes all the difference. Plants, like children, can still survive a rough start in life, but sometimes get hardened to the world, finding it difficult to go into full bloom. It’s possible, but so much easier if the plants, and children, are properly nourished in mind, body, and soul when they are getting their start in the world. _ The good news in my garden is, although I have quite a bit of pruning and dividing to do, its flourishing in this season of my negligence. _ How does your garden grow? •••••• #inbloom #inmygarden #pnw #greenelephantgarden #greenelephantgardening #flowerinbloom #bikurgurl #bikurgurlblog #gardening_love #washingtonstategardener #nativegardening #organicgardener #itsallaboutthegarden #optoutside #wildandfreemama #wildandfreegarden

I never tire of the ocean, the beach, the water 💦 •••••• #icomefromthewater #pugetsound #pacificoceanblue #bikurgurl #bikurgurlblog #bikurgurlvideo #bikurgurltravels #mukilteobeach #pnw #mysirensong

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