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Embracing Stillness: Lessons Learned Waiting at the Vet
Embracing Stillness: Lessons Learned Waiting at the Vet

This year I’ve gone to more vet appointments than I can count. I guess I could count them, flip back through calendar pages and tally up appointments for tests and surgery and treatments and more tests.

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gratitude, joy, life, seasonsAnne Buterastillness, embracing stillness, quiet, embracing quiet, waiting, waiting during medical appointments, pets, loving animals, veterinarian appointments, rescued greyhounds, retired racing greyhounds, rescued cats, joy, gratitude, gratitude practice, unexpected gratitude, embracing gratitude, unexpected joy, pandemic, struggles, mindfulness, inactivity, gift of stillness, gift of inactivity, magic of the seasons, changing season, autumn, beauty, noticing beauty, distraction, being distracted, filling time with distraction Comments
The Art of Doing Nothing
The Art of Doing Nothing

“Summer afternoon — summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”

—Henry James

Ah, summer. Here in Wisconsin summer is well and truly here.

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garden, joy, life, seasons, artAnne Buterasummer, savoring, savoring each day, taking time to savor life's joys, the art of doing nothing, the importance of doing nothing, recharging, how to relax, letting go of pressure, letting go, slow living, slowing down, quiet, doing nothing, painting, gardening, garden, borage flowers, watercolor, watercolors, botanical watercolor, rose paintingComment