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JAMIE’S BLOG – YEAR 9 home – 39 days to go

22 Nov

{trust}  

There are 39 days left of The Promise 365!

Tonight, I celebrate my ancestors and the “homeland” that my grandfather told me about ages ago. Esslingen am Neckar. It was the cutest little old German village I have ever seen (not that I have seen that many….) but I loved it. 

More than anything I loved seeing that faraway place I have always heard about. The hills, the houses, the rivers that meet in the middle of the medieval city. There were roads and roads of Christmas Market booths that were being set up with little green trees, angels and Santas. Unfortunately, the Christmas market doesn’t open until next week so I guess I must return again.  

Before we left, I left a piece of my heart in the city of my family name. As we crossed one of the bridges overlooking a picturesque park, I dug the little heart-shaped rock from my pocket that I carried with me from America. It was a rock from the beaches of Boston. I threw it over my shoulder and into the little river so that wherever I go, a part of my heart will always be in Esslingen. 

Over the last nine years, this promise and this blog have taught me that “home” is in your heart. Wherever you go it goes with you. But today, I left a little piece of my heart in the homeland. 
Trust me!
More tomorrow.Jamie

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JAMIE’S BLOG – YEAR 9 – DAY 319 :: home – 47 days to go

14 Nov


{trust}  

There are 47 days left of The Promise 365! Tonight I celebrate home.

Over these past nine years, we have lived in 7 different places and 4 different states (Massachusetts, Florida, Oregon, and Washington then back to Massachusetts). We have never really felt at home in any of those places, knowing that the next place would come to us in a matter of years, chasing jobs and chasing dreams back and forth across the country.

But one thing has held true, this blog has been my home. Each night I have visited it like a safe little haven, a touchstone to my head, heart, body and soul.

Our adventures in moving have taught me that home is really not a place, it is a feeling. And this blog is not a diary, it’s a reflection of my interior mind design. 

Trust me!
More tomorrow.Jamie

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JAMIE’S BLOG – YEAR 9 – DAY 2767 :: home

6 Oct


{trust}  

Home again, home again!  I am home and after being welcomed by the welcoming committee (Brady) which looked something like this… 

I am happy to have landed… and now, rest. 

Trust me!
More tomorrow.
Jamie

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JAMIE’S BLOG – YEAR 9 – DAY 268 :: trusting home

27 Sep

{trust}  

It’s Friday night and I am home sweet home, sitting on the couch watching movies and feeling the sense of rest and relief that only a Friday night can bring. I love traveling and adventure but I also love home. I love the candles lit on my fireplace throwing the light of comfort on the walls. I love the snuggling puppy at my side circled up under a fuzzy blanket.

Just after my movie finished another popped up on the screen, one called Idaho. It’s ironically the first place I called home. As I watch the beautiful scenes from the state where I grew up I find it refreshing that it feels just as familiar as the state where I now live.

We have actually lived in so many states over the years that it’s hard to know which place is really our home. We have moved six times in ten years but each place has held a thread of us. Weave them all together and we have a blanket called home.

I think that’s because home is not really a place, it’s rather a feeling The one inside of you that feels like trust. So here’s to snuggling up at home on a Friday night. The best kind of way to end a week. 

Trust me!
More tomorrow.
Jamie

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JAMIE’S BLOG – YEAR 7 – KINDNESS  DAY 122 :: 4-letter word friday

5 May

Home.

In a word, I am home. HOME. Maybe the best 4-letter word of all after a long day up in the air. It’s nice to be down on the ground.

More tomorrow….
Lovemore,
Jamie

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JAMIE’S BLOG – YEAR 6 – YOGA DAY 351 :: home again home again

16 Dec

Day 351: Lickety-Split. 

I’m HOME!
And with me I bring a little memory back from Chicago.

There’s nothing like being home, and being home for the holidays.

Tomorrow I dive back into the Yoga Shred Challenge. You can join the course here.
Namaste, Sleepy eyes. Namaste.

More tomorrow.
Lovemore,
Jamie
{Home?}
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JAMIE’S BLOG – YEAR 6 – YOGA DAY 246 :: the heart of the matter

9 Sep

Day 246: Home.

And just like that….I am home.

Ironically, I spotted another heart today: this one is pretty obvious!

I have to say, I respect and admire the branding and “heart” put into everything about the Southwest Airlines experience. Todays’ flight was smooth, the passengers were friendly (and all seemed happy even the little babies being walked up and down the ailse).

But, this I know for sure: the heart of every brand is its people. So thank you SWA for getting me home. Safely and smoothly. With a FREE checked bag!

That’s enough to make me want to go to bed and rest this weary little traveling head. But first… I must do yoga.

More tomorrow.
Lovemore,
Jamie

{home}
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JAMIE’S BLOG – DAY 313 :: blissful home

13 Nov

Today’s bliss…arriving home.

I am home after a day of travels. My heart is full for I am home. But my heart is heavy for those who call Paris home.

May bliss find everyone home. Safe.
And sound. 

More tomorrow. 
Lovemore,
Jamie
{love and prayers}
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JAMIE’S BLOG – DAY 348 :: hope is a muscle, and a connection

19 Dec

Peak performance moment of the day:  Fa la la la la la la hot spot!

The great travel has begun, the journey home to that little spot in Idaho where I grew up. We made it to Portland tonight and I find myself searching for a connection. An internet connection.

That’s the funny thing about this blog. It has made me more connected to finding connections than ever before. Over four years, through hurricanes, vacations, Nor’easters, 30 foot waves taking off the front porch of our house, getting locked out of our vacation villa in Mexico, traveling to Paris, rafting down the Grand Canyon, surgery, after surgery, after another surgery …. I have been forced to find an internet connection to post this blog.

Somedays I have cheated and posted a short post. Somedays I have prescheduled the posts, because let’s face it, there’s no internet connection in the Grand Canyon or the surgery room. And other days, no matter where I find myself,  I have counted on my trusty iPhone for a hot spot connection.

Tonight I find myself sitting in a parked car, with laptop on my lap, heater on, hooked up to my iPhone. It’s the only connection around without trying to find a Starbucks.

I have become so trusting of having a connection that tonight when I couldn’t get my iPhone to work I almost panicked. But hope is a muscle. It’s one I have conditioned and strengthened into peak performance to perform over and over again, night after night, word after word on this blog.

Because we can always find a connection.
Even if it means hunkering down in a car with iPhone pointed in the right direction just slightly to the left sitting on the dashboard.

You can always find a connection.

Tomorrow I head to Idaho, hoping to find another kind of connection, back to my family, back to my hometown, back to my roots.

iPhone in hand. 
Fa la la la la la la la hot spot!

More tomorrow. 
Lovemore,
Jamie

 

 {how are you connected?}

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BLOG – GIFT DAY 360 :: #home

26 Dec

We just made it home!

Our drive was long but so worth it.
Of course we spotted many beautiful views on our drive from Washington to Oregon, including this:


But I think Brady’s face says it all.
We are part happy and part sad. It always feels good to arrive home and yet it always stings to leave family behind.

Another holiday gone by.
Another year almost over.

But so many good memories.
And so many good stories.
All tucked away for another time and another holiday.

For the time called next time.
Until we meet again.

More tomorrow.
Lovemore {fearless}
Jamie

{what memories did you make?}

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