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The wisdom of a bench

April 14, 2013 by thirdeyemom

This week’s travel theme by Where’s My Backpack is benches. The beauty of a bench is something sometimes easily missed. Yet for me, as I live in Minnesota, land of 10,000 lakes and many beautiful parks, there are benches everywhere. About these ads

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Categories: BLOGGING, Inspiration, iPhonography, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Other Photo Challenges, PHOTOGRAPHY, Reflection, TRAVEL BY COUNTRY, United States • Tags: Inspiration, Lake Harriet, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Photography, reflection, thirdeyemom, Travel

The change that hasn’t come

April 12, 2013 by thirdeyemom

“Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are” – Bertolt Brecht This time last year, we were basking in the sunshine embracing the gorgeous beauty, energy and rejuvination that springtime brings to Minnesotans. On this day last year, spring was in full force with leaves bursting anew in a brilliant tapestry of verdant, virgin green. The telltale signs of spring – brightly colored tulips, deep purple pasque flowers and singing birds- were everywhere. […]

Categories: BLOGGING, Inspiration, Reflection, Weekly Photo Challenge • Tags: change, Inspiration, Minnesota, reflection, Seasons, Spring, thirdeyemom, Weekly Photo Challenge

16 hours: An ode to being sick

March 27, 2013 by thirdeyemom

Please excuse the rant and my attempt at poetry but I had to get this out! I promise my next post will be a delight to the eye full of flowers! But sometimes you’ve got to take the good with the bad. I think that 16 hours of the worst stomach flu is up there with the bad. But then again, it sure makes you appreciate and thank God for your health. -thirdeyemom My body feels like it has been […]

Categories: BLOGGING, Reflection • Tags: Humor, illness, reflection, thirdeyemom

The passage of time

March 23, 2013 by thirdeyemom

Ailsa’s travel theme this week is the sensational concept of time. I am huge on reflection and when I thought of the subject of time, I brought myself back twenty years to where I was then and where I will be in a month’s time: Lovely Paris.

Categories: BLOGGING, France, Inspiration, Other Photo Challenges, Paris, Reflection, TRAVEL BY COUNTRY • Tags: CULTURE, France, Inspiration, life, Paris, reflection, studying abroad, thirdeyemom, Travel

Desperately awaiting Spring

March 19, 2013 by thirdeyemom

I should understand by now that the long-awaited arrival of Spring in Minnesota is a temperamental thing. Last year at this time, it was unseasonably warm and we were basking in the sun wearing shorts and t-shirts. This year, we are buried under snow and below zero wind chills. Minnesotans are getting frustrated and stir crazy. After five long months of winter, we just want to be outside listening to the birds sing and watching in awe as color and […]

Categories: BLOGGING, Inspiration, PHOTOGRAPHY, Reflection • Tags: Guatemala, Inspiration, Nepal, Photography, Spring, thirdeyemom, winter

From Pampas to Plains

February 27, 2013 by thirdeyemom

I haven’t felt up to writing much today as I’m still battling a persistent, stubborn sinus infection that is making me tired, somewhat grumpy and not 100%. Yet in times of illness, I always remind myself that things could always be worse. Much worse. So it is important to be positive and put my plugged ears and stuffed up head into perspective! That said, I wanted to do a quick post of inspiration. On Sunday, Jakesprinter’s Travel Theme was Plains. I […]

Categories: BLOGGING, Inspiration, Other Photo Challenges, Reflection • Tags: Argentina, CULTURE, Guatemala, Iceland, Nepal, pampas, Photography, plains, thirdeyemom, Travel

The Bridges we pass

February 24, 2013 by thirdeyemom

“Keep all special thoughts and memories for lifetimes to come. Share these keepsakes with others to inspire hope and build from the past, which can bridge to the future”. – Mattie Stepanek This week’s travel theme by Ailsa of “Where’s my backpack” is another beautiful one: Bridges. Looking at bridges in a metaphoric way they are the means of crossing over to a new place. I look back at all the bridges I’ve experienced in my life: Graduating college, studying […]

Categories: BLOGGING, Inspiration, Other Photo Challenges, Reflection • Tags: Blogging, bridges, CULTURE, Inspiration, life, thirdeyemom, Travel, wheres my backpack travel theme

Reflections on being home sick

February 19, 2013 by thirdeyemom

After two back-to-back trips in a period of one week, from east to west to home again, I’ve finally caught the much deserved head cold. Back in the days before kids, I used to travel a ton for work and normally had some kind of cold every single month from November to May. Thankfully those days of a traveling saleswoman are over as well as the years when my children were little and were constantly sick. I honestly can’t complain […]

Categories: BLOGGING, Reflection • Tags: Blogging, home, life, Minnesota, reflection, thirdeyemom

Shadows of life

February 2, 2013 by thirdeyemom

“Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you”. -Walt Whitman Lately I’ve felt a bit blue. It has been bitter cold here and we’ve been trapped inside the house given me a case of cabin fever and restlessness. How I long to be outside right now doing what I love best. How I long to lift these shadows covering the light. Maybe I shouldn’t be reading about all the atrocities in the world in “War […]

Categories: ACTIVE TRAVEL, ADVOCACY, BLOGGING, France, Human Trafficking, Inspiration, Other Photo Challenges, PHOTOGRAPHY, Reflection, Tour de Vanoise, TRAVEL BY COUNTRY, Trekking/Hiking • Tags: CULTURE, HUMAN RIGHTS, Inspiration, Photography, reflection, thirdeyemom, trafficking, Travel, violence, war

Au revoir 2012…Welcome 2013!

December 31, 2012 by thirdeyemom

Looking forward to 2013 and all that is to come. As the winter sun begins to set upon the last remaining hours of 2012, I can’t help but look forward to welcoming the new year. The last few weeks of 2012 have been a bit grueling. We celebrated an early Christmas at home with two very sick kids fighting the stomach flu. The day before we were to leave for the holidays to Virginia, I had to rush my little […]

Categories: BLOGGING, Inspiration, Reflection • Tags: CULTURE, Inspiration, life, New Year, reflection, thirdeyemom, Travel

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