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Emmy Pickering
- Dec 28, 2021
- 5 min
Maniacally Hopeful
I walked back down the hill and watched as a huge morpho butterfly fluttered by me, its massive iridescent blue wings glinting in the...
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Emmy Pickering
- May 26, 2021
- 6 min
Too Good To Be True
TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE; The saying itself denotes that something that is good cannot equal truth, doesn’t it? Or that we don’t believe that...
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Emmy Pickering
- Feb 24, 2021
- 6 min
On Purpose
We forget that we are the only ones who can truly know our experience, the manual can’t apply to you because it wasn’t written about you....
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Emmy Pickering
- Jan 27, 2021
- 9 min
Hold The Line
I recognize in myself that I tend to want to live in fairy tales, I want to read them and I want to write them. I sat down many times...
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Emmy Pickering
- Dec 30, 2020
- 10 min
2020 Vision
2020 gotcha like? 2020 vision; It’s almost too easy to use that term this year but boy does it feel appropriate. Just over a year ago I...
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Emmy Pickering
- Dec 16, 2020
- 3 min
That Time Again
When people see those big promotions for setting intentions and resolutions I think many can feel overwhelmed by it all. The whole ‘new...
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Emmy Pickering
- Nov 25, 2020
- 5 min
Something Worth Celebrating
Sometimes after the girls are in bed I look through the photos on my phone and see them in the quiet of the moment I’m in, instead of the...
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Emmy Pickering
- Oct 28, 2020
- 5 min
To Sustain Us
This experience doesn’t exist today. Not readily, not easily. Sure it still does for the few who are not willing to depart from what they...
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Emmy Pickering
- Jul 29, 2020
- 5 min
What Matters Most
I will never look back on this time and regret it. I won’t regret how much togetherness there was, how close we all were, how day upon...
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Emmy Pickering
- Jul 1, 2020
- 4 min
Bright Spots
I have a book for each of my girls and I write to them on big holidays and their birthdays, I’ve been doing it since they were each in...
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Emmy Pickering
- Jun 24, 2020
- 4 min
Welcome Gracie Juniper
Eight years ago today my waters had already broke. Actually they broke over 36 hours ago and there I was, waiting for you to be born. I...
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Emmy Pickering
- Jun 10, 2020
- 4 min
PLEASURE | JOY | FUN
Throwback to February when I originally wrote this…I wonder, given current events and circumstances, if anyone has been able to embrace...
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Emmy Pickering
- Apr 29, 2020
- 6 min
A Life that is Good
Imagine… You wake up feeling well rested. You see the sun shining around the cracks of your curtain in the bedroom and know in your bones...
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Emmy Pickering
- Apr 17, 2020
- 6 min
Don’t censor JOY.
I woke up to Edie’s coos and the distinct sound of a 7 year old creating a breakfast masterpiece in the kitchen. You know that sound of...
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Emmy Pickering
- Apr 2, 2020
- 6 min
Microfocusing on the Moment
This Weird Time, that’s all I can refer to it as. I don’t like saying “new normal” because that seems to add a sense of laissez-faire...
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