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Krystal on December 20th, 2011

Many people forget or perhaps do not realize that the origins of our celebrations around this time of year are tied to the rhythms of nature from a time when we too were bound by the excessive darkness that occurs at this time of year. This week marks the shortest days of the year, those [...]

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Krystal on November 17th, 2011

The other day I wanted to make a craft involving acorn tops which has evolved into a whole project, you gotta love life for that, why don’t I home-school again? Anyway first I had to find an ‘acorn’ tree which the kids learned is actually an Oak tree and several of them grow near the [...]

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Krystal on July 23rd, 2011

My birthday was on Tuesday. Happy Birthday to me. I turned 29. This week has been extraordinarily fantastic. Which I hope is an indication of the rest of my year/life yet to come. Last Friday I took off to Vancouver to meet up with my sister for a Folk Festival. We don’t get to hang [...]

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Krystal on April 22nd, 2011

My kids are getting older and while they aren’t exactly staying out all hours of the night or anything they can do a lot of things for themselves. One of the things my son in particular likes to do is play music. He frequently pops in a ‘Little People’ CD and cranks it. Which after [...]

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Krystal on April 10th, 2011

I posted this in a Facebook group to inspire some conversation on the subject. The arts are being threatened with all sorts of cutbacks in my country for some strange reason people put little value on it. They forget that without artists their lives would be far duller. Art inspires, it entertains, it encourages and [...]

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Krystal on March 2nd, 2011

While this is completely unrelated to anything this dog is quite possibly the cutest dog I have ever seen. I’m not really a dog person per say, definitely lean towards the cat end of the spectrum but there are some dogs that you just have to like. I suspect this might be one of them. [...]

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