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i have 3 things to share that were nuggets of gold from my day yesterday that i want to live on...in writing....so here goes:



1.  i did the run for the cure with my mom yesterday.  i had several moments where every part of me was filled with love, empathy, gratitude, & hope.  as i stood next to my mother at the beginning of the race, i looked around to take in the moment.  there were survivors proudly parading to the stage, daughters hugging mothers, husbands taking pictures of their wives & people proudly wearing pink.  i realized in that moment just how many families have been affected by this terrible disease.  i felt an overwhelming sense of gratitude that i was running with my mother that day.  the person next to me may have been running for or in honour of theirs.  tears came to my eyes for those who lost the battle,  those who were grieving that loved one & for those who have fought and continue to fight.  it felt so amazing to be running to find a cure to end breast cancer.  oh & i'll also have you know, that not only did i run with my mother, she beat me too...what an inspiring {fit} lady!

2.  the second nugget of the day was coming back to my apartment & going through the letters that my grama wrote to my papa just after the war.  1946...a different time, a different place, a different world.  they met during the war.  a lovely, bright, joyful one-of-a-kind british lady & a handsome, brave canadian solider.  as my mother & i read in wonder, i realized how BIG this idea i have really is.  i am going to england to retrace my grandmothers steps.  knock on the door of the house that she wrote from, walk the streets she walked, visit the places she speaks of in her letters.  see where she worked, watch the films she mentions & hear the music of the time she speaks so highly of.  i will share my journey discovering hers.  honouring the generations before me, realizing that i am a part of something WAY bigger here.  the letters start in December of 1945 & go all the way to her highly anticipated departure to Canada as a Warbride in June of 1946.  i will share a lesson i gain from the letters, do something that makes it a shared parallel journey between the two of us & leave it with an inquiry to my readers.  what did she bring up, what does it bring up for me & what does it bring up for you. oh it's going to be magical

3.  the 3rd nugget of the day was this "AWESOME" Ted Talk that i watched.  watch it, people!!  it makes me realize just how limited our time is here & that we MUST go out into the world & do the thing that we're meant to do.  if you live a life with a positive Attitude, while being Authentic & having the Awareness that's needed to really ENJOY life......it's gonna be AWESOME~!!!!