holding on :: letting go

my great-aunts, uncles and grandfather playing tennis on the farm.

2012

where 2011 was the year of "owning it" i am working on "letting go" as my mantra for 2012.


Broadlands :: where my mom grew up. It still stands, and is owned by friends of our family.

i am often accused of being overly nostalgic. i hold on tight. and the end of the day my pockets are filled with the detrius of our adventures, mundane and otherwise. i collect bits and pieces and store them away. not just physical bits - but emotional too. i am going to work hard this year on letting go of those things that hold me back and holding tight to only that which makes me happy.


a rich harvest of apples and melons from the farm. i imagine the apples being cherished through the long prairie winter as i explain to k this morning why we don't buy strawberries in january.


my grandfather on the back of a percheron stallion

i love these images of my family, part of a collection passed on to me over christmas by my mom - from the albums of my great aunt, who would have turned 100 on december 27th - but passed away in the spring. i'm holding on to them...


my mom, aunt, uncle and a cousin

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