Author Archives: kibbyjardine

“The Art of Love” The most amazing thing happened last week in Savannah. I was sitting having lunch with a dear friend at a restaurant sidewalk table. We were discussing “chasing joy” and choosing to be happy in this precariously balanced life, and this painting walked by! Literally it had legs! Eyes shocked wide openContinueContinue reading “love with legs”

This is a republish of my Jan 16th post. A snafu occurred and rather than spend precious time seeking the answer, which is irrelevant to me lest it happens again, I’ve just republished. Maybe you missed it the first time…? I wasn’t going to write about this date, but my mind can’t get off theContinueContinue reading “today.”

As an observer and documenter of this world, I am often challenged with contradiction: do I pause the moment, to note its details or do I carry on with my experience and rely on my ever-failing memory? I don’t have a practiced response to this challenge, so this morning I paused to record my experienceContinueContinue reading “annual life lessons”

It’s time to check in on our holiday traditions… With all that’s been swirling in the last couple of years, our little family is using this season to assess and refocus ourselves on what matters to us.  The year before Henry was born, we suffered a catastrophic financial loss. 9/11 happened and the trickle-down devastationContinueContinue reading “our perfectly imperfect Xmas”