tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60272678952380904262024-03-13T05:03:29.702-05:00Haven and HomeHaven and Homehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12747895184154272085noreply@blogger.comBlogger1608125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6027267895238090426.post-21788698620050497002016-10-03T21:21:00.002-05:002016-10-03T21:21:17.816-05:00Marianne Strong Interiors Website <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
It came to our attention this week that for some reason <a href="http://www.mariannestronginteriors.com/">www.MarianneStrongInteriors.com</a> is not showing up in Google, even when specifically entered. We are working on fixing this but in the mean time this blog does come up as part of the search so I wanted to use this post as a way to point people to the actual website. </div>
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Also, one goal while we are closed during my maternity leave is to have several projects shot and update the site. We will see how it goes, but we have not stopped long enough over the last two years since the "new" website was launched to properly show my most recent work and there are several projects I am eager to show you! I will keep you posted here as things progress. </div>
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<br />Haven and Homehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12747895184154272085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6027267895238090426.post-69234273716443215382016-03-23T08:51:00.000-05:002016-03-23T08:51:11.125-05:00Tables For Sale<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
For Sale: Pair of Interlude Ashlyn accent tables. Silver leaf w/ gray marble top. 21"H x 19"Dia. $350 each or $600/pair. Brand new, they were only taken out of the box to photograph. <a href="http://www.modishstore.com/products/interlude-ashlyn-side-table?utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=googlepla&variant=9619925957&gclid=CIaU6uP51ssCFdgKgQod768JzQ">Retail online for $675 each</a>; one time only price. Would be great as side tables or used together in place of a coffee table. E-mail me @ <a href="mailto:marianne@mstronginteriors.com">marianne@mstronginteriors.com</a>. Birmingham, Montgomery or Nashville pickup only.</div>
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<br />Haven and Homehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12747895184154272085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6027267895238090426.post-50051466278695288702016-01-04T21:31:00.001-06:002016-01-04T21:31:43.245-06:00Back To It...With The Help of Shonda<br />
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Today was the first day back to work after 2 weeks of vacation. This <a href="http://www.dartmouth.edu/~commence/news/speeches/2014/rhimes-address.html">commencement speech given by Shonda Rhimes at the 2014 Dartmouth graduation</a> randomly fell in my lap this morning and I am grateful...it hit home and I needed to hear it today. Passing it along in case someone else out there needs it too:</div>
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<i>President Hanlon, faculty, staff, honored guests, parents, students, families and friends—good morning and congratulations to the Dartmouth graduating class of 2014!</i></div>
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<i>So.</i></div>
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<i>This is weird.</i></div>
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<i>Me giving a speech. In general, I do not like giving speeches. Giving a speech requires standing in front of large groups of people while they look at you and it also requires talking. I can do the standing part OK. But the you looking and the me talking ... I am not a fan. I get this overwhelming feeling of fear. Terror, really. Dry mouth, heart beats superfast, everything gets a little bit slow motion. Like I might pass out. Or die. Or poop my pants or something. I mean, don't worry. I'm not going to pass out or die or poop my pants. Mainly because just by telling you that it could happen, I have somehow neutralized it as an option. Like as if saying it out loud casts some kind of spell where now it cannot possibly happen now. Vomit. I could vomit. See. Vomiting is now also off the table. Neutralized it. We're good.</i></div>
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<i>Anyway, the point is. I do not like to give speeches. I'm a writer. I'm a TV writer. I like to write stuff for other people to say. I actually contemplated bringing Ellen Pompeo or Kerry Washington here to say my speech for me ... but my lawyer pointed out that when you drag someone across state lines against their will, the FBI comes looking for you, so...</i></div>
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<i>I don't like giving speeches, in general, because of the fear and terror. But this speech? This speech, I really did not want to give.</i></div>
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<i>A Dartmouth Commencement speech? Dry mouth. Heart beats so, so fast. Everything in slow motion. Pass out, die, poop.</i></div>
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<i>Look, it would be fine if this were, 20 years ago. If it were back in the day when I graduated from Dartmouth. Twenty-three years ago, I was sitting right where you are now. And I was listening to Elizabeth Dole speak. And she was great. She was calm and she was confident. It was just ... different. It felt like she was just talking to a group of people. Like a fireside chat with friends. Just Liddy Dole and like 9,000 of her closest friends. Because it was 20 years ago. And she was just talking to a group of people.</i></div>
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<i>Now? Twenty years later? This is no fireside chat. It's not just you and me. This speech is filmed and streamed and tweeted and uploaded. NPR has like, a whole site dedicated to Commencement speeches. A whole site just about commencement speeches. There are sites that rate them and mock them and dissect them. It's weird. And stressful. And kind of vicious if you're an introvert perfectionist writer who hates speaking in public in the first place.</i></div>
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<i>When President Hanlon called me—and by the way, I would like to thank President Hanlon for asking me way back in January, thus giving me a full six months of terror and panic to enjoy. When President Hanlon called me, I almost said no. Almost.</i></div>
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<i>Dry mouth. Heart beats so, so fast. Everything in slow motion. Pass out, die, poop.</i></div>
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<i>But I'm here. I am gonna do it. I'm doing it. You know why?</i></div>
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<i>Because I like a challenge. And because this year I made myself a promise that I was going to do the stuff that terrifies me. And because, 20-plus years ago when I was trudging uphill from the River Cluster through all that snow to get to the Hop for play rehearsal, I never imagined that I would one day be standing here, at the Old Pine lectern. Staring out at all of you. About to throw down on some wisdom in the Dartmouth Commencement address.</i></div>
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<i>So, you know, yeah. Moments.</i></div>
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<i>Also, I'm here because I really, really wanted some EBAs.</i></div>
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<i>OK.</i></div>
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<i>I want to say right now that every single time someone asked me what I was going to talk about in this speech, I would boldly and confidently tell them that I had all kinds wisdom to share. I was lying. I feel wildly unqualified to give you advice. There is no wisdom here. So all I can do is talk about some stuff that could maybe be useful to you, from one Dartmouth grad to another. Some stuff that won't ever show up in a Meredith Grey voiceover or a Papa Pope monologue. Some stuff I probably shouldn't be telling you here now because of the uploading and the streaming and the tweeting. But I am going to pretend that it is 20 years ago. That it's just you and me. That we're having a fireside chat. Screw the outside world and what they think. I've already said "poop" like five times already anyway ... things are getting real up in here.</i></div>
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<i>OK, wait. Before I talk to you. I want to talk to your parents. Because the other thing about it being 20 years later is that I'm a mother now. So I know some things, some very different things. I have three girls. I've been to the show. You don't know what that means, but your parents do. You think this day is all about you. But your parents ... the people who raised you ... the people who endured you ... they potty trained you, they taught you to read, they survived you as a teenager, they have suffered 21 years and not once did they kill you. This day ... you call it your graduation day. But this day is not about you. This is their day. This is the day they take back their lives, this is the day they earn their freedom. This day is their Independence Day. So, parents, I salute you. And as I have an eight-month-old, I hope to join your ranks of freedom in 20 years!</i></div>
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<i>OK. So here comes the real deal part of the speech, or you might call it, Some Random Stuff Some Random Alum Who Runs a TV Show Thinks I Should Know Before I Graduate:</i></div>
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<i>You ready?</i></div>
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<i>When people give these kinds of speeches, they usually tell you all kinds of wise and heartfelt things. They have wisdom to impart. They have lessons to share. They tell you: Follow your dreams. Listen to your spirit. Change the world. Make your mark. Find your inner voice and make it sing. Embrace failure. Dream. Dream and dream big. As a matter of fact, dream and don't stop dreaming until all of your dreams come true.</i></div>
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<i>I think that's crap.</i></div>
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<i>I think a lot of people dream. And while they are busy dreaming, the really happy people, the really successful people, the really interesting, engaged, powerful people, are busy doing.</i></div>
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<i>The dreamers. They stare at the sky and they make plans and they hope and they talk about it endlessly. And they start a lot of sentences with "I want to be ..." or "I wish."</i></div>
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<i>"I want to be a writer." "I wish I could travel around the world."</i></div>
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<i>And they dream of it. The buttoned-up ones meet for cocktails and they brag about their dreams, and the hippie ones have vision boards and they meditate about their dreams. Maybe you write in journals about your dreams or discuss it endlessly with your best friend or your girlfriend or your mother. And it feels really good. You're talking about it, and you're planning it. Kind of. You are blue-skying your life. And that is what everyone says you should be doing. Right? I mean, that's what Oprah and Bill Gates did to get successful, right?</i></div>
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<i>No.</i></div>
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<i>Dreams are lovely. But they are just dreams. Fleeting, ephemeral, pretty. But dreams do not come true just because you dream them. It's hard work that makes things happen. It's hard work that creates change.</i></div>
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<i>So, Lesson One, I guess is: Ditch the dream and be a doer, not a dreamer. Maybe you know exactly what it is you dream of being, or maybe you're paralyzed because you have no idea what your passion is. The truth is, it doesn't matter. You don't have to know. You just have to keep moving forward. You just have to keep doing something, seizing the next opportunity, staying open to trying something new. It doesn't have to fit your vision of the perfect job or the perfect life. Perfect is boring and dreams are not real. Just ... do. So you think, "I wish I could travel." Great. Sell your crappy car, buy a ticket to Bangkok, and go. Right now. I'm serious.</i></div>
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<i>You want to be a writer? A writer is someone who writes every day, so start writing. You don't have a job? Get one. Any job. Don't sit at home waiting for the magical opportunity. Who are you? Prince William? No. Get a job. Go to work. Do something until you can do something else.</i></div>
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<i>I did not dream of being a TV writer. Never, not once when I was here in the hallowed halls of the Ivy League, did I say to myself, "Self, I want to write TV."</i></div>
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<i>You know what I wanted to be? I wanted to be Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison. That was my dream. I blue sky'ed it like crazy. I dreamed and dreamed. And while I was dreaming, I was living in my sister's basement. Dreamers often end up living in the basements of relatives, FYI. Anyway, there I was in that basement, and I was dreaming of being Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison. And guess what? I couldn't be Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison, because Toni Morrison already had that job and she wasn't interested in giving it up. So one day I was sitting in that basement and I read an article that said—it was in The New York Times—and it said it was harder to get into USC Film School than it was to get into Harvard Law School. And I thought I could dream about being Toni Morrison, or I could do.</i></div>
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<i>At film school, I discovered an entirely new way of telling stories. A way that suited me. A way that brought me joy. A way that flipped this switch in my brain and changed the way I saw the world. Years later, I had dinner with Toni Morrison. All she wanted to talk about was Grey's Anatomy. That never would have happened if I hadn't stopped dreaming of becoming her and gotten busy becoming myself.</i></div>
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<i>Lesson Two. Lesson two is that tomorrow is going to be the worst day ever for you.</i></div>
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<i>When I graduated from Dartmouth that day in 1991, when I was sitting right where you are and I was staring up at Elizabeth Dole speaking, I will admit that I have no idea what she was saying. Couldn't even listen to her. Not because I was overwhelmed or emotional or any of that. But because I had a serious hangover. Like, an epic painful hangover because (and here is where I apologize to President Hanlon because I know that you are trying to build a better and more responsible Dartmouth and I applaud you and I admire you and it is very necessary) but I was really freaking drunk the night before. And the reason I'd been so drunk the night before, the reason I'd done upside down margarita shots at Bones Gate was because I knew that after graduation, I was going to take off my cap and gown, my parents were going to pack my stuff in the car and I was going to go home and probably never come back to Hanover again. And even if I did come back, it wouldn't matter because it wouldn't be the same because I didn't live here anymore.</i></div>
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<i>On my graduation day, I was grieving.</i></div>
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<i>My friends were celebrating. They were partying. They were excited. So happy. No more school, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks. And I was like, are you freaking kidding me? You get all the fro‑yo you want here! The gym is free. The apartments in Manhattan are smaller than my suite in North Mass. Who cared if there was no place to get my hair done? All my friends are here. I have a theatre company here. I was grieving. I knew enough about how the world works, enough about how adulthood plays out, to be grieving.</i></div>
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<i>Here's where I am going to embarrass myself and make you all feel maybe a little bit better about yourselves. I literally lay down on the floor of my dorm room and cried while my mother packed up my room. I refused to help her. Like, hell no I won't go. I nonviolent-protested leaving here. Like, went limp like a protestor, only without the chanting—it was really pathetic. If none of you lie down on a dirty hardwood floor and cry today while your mommy packs up your dorm room, you are already starting your careers out ahead of me. You are winning.</i></div>
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<i>But here's the thing. The thing I really felt like I knew was that the real world sucks. And it is scary. College is awesome. You're special here. You're in the Ivy League, you are at the pinnacle of your life's goals at this point—your entire life up until now has been about getting into some great college and then graduating from that college. And now, today, you have done it. The moment you get out of college, you think you are going to take the world by storm. All doors will be opened to you. It's going to be laughter and diamonds and soirees left and right.</i></div>
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<i>What really happens is that, to the rest of the world, you are now at the bottom of the heap. Maybe you're an intern, possibly a low-paid assistant. And it is awful. The real world, it sucked so badly for me. I felt like a loser all of the time. And more than a loser? I felt lost.</i></div>
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<i>Which brings me to clarify lesson number two.</i></div>
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<i>Tomorrow is going to be the worst day ever for you. But don't be an asshole.</i></div>
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<i>Here's the thing. Yes, it is hard out there. But hard is relative. I come from a middle-class family, my parents are academics, I was born after the civil rights movement, I was a toddler during the women's movement, I live in the United States of America, all of which means I'm allowed to own my freedom, my rights, my voice, and my uterus; and I went to Dartmouth and I earned an Ivy League degree.</i></div>
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<i>The lint in my navel that accumulated while I gazed at it as I suffered from feeling lost about how hard it was to not feel special after graduation ... that navel lint was embarrassed for me.</i></div>
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<i>Elsewhere in the world, girls are harmed simply because they want to get an education. Slavery still exists. Children still die from malnutrition. In this country, we lose more people to handgun violence than any other nation in the world. Sexual assault against women in America is pervasive and disturbing and continues at an alarming rate.</i></div>
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<i>So yes, tomorrow may suck for you—as it did for me. But as you stare at the lint in your navel, have some perspective. We are incredibly lucky. We have been given a gift. An incredible education has been placed before us. We ate all the fro-yo we could get our hands on. We skied. We had EBAs at 1 a.m. We built bonfires and got frostbite and had all the free treadmills. We beer-ponged our asses off. Now it's time to pay it forward.</i></div>
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<i>Find a cause you love. It's OK to pick just one. You are going to need to spend a lot of time out in the real world trying to figure out how to stop feeling like a lost loser, so one cause is good. Devote some time every week to it.</i></div>
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<i>Oh. And while we are discussing this, let me say a thing. A hashtag is not helping. #yesallwomen #takebackthenight #notallmen #bringbackourgirls #StopPretendingHashtagsAreTheSameAsDoingSomething</i></div>
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<i>Hashtags are very pretty on Twitter. I love them. I will hashtag myself into next week. But a hashtag is not a movement. A hashtag does not make you Dr. King. A hashtag does not change anything. It's a hashtag. It's you, sitting on your butt, typing on your computer and then going back to binge-watching your favorite show. I do it all the time. For me, it's Game of Thrones.</i></div>
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<i>Volunteer some hours. Focus on something outside yourself. Devote a slice of your energies towards making the world suck less every week. Some people suggest doing this will increase your sense of well-being. Some say it's good karma. I say that it will allow you to remember that, whether you are a legacy or the first in your family to go to college, the air you are breathing right now is rare air. Appreciate it. Don't be an asshole.</i></div>
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<i>Lesson number three.</i></div>
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<i>So you're out there, and you're giving back and you're doing, and it's working. And life is good. You are making it. You're a success. And it's exciting and it's great. At least it is for me. I love my life. I have three TV shows at work and I have three daughters at home. And it's all amazing, and I am truly happy. And people are constantly asking me, how do you do it?</i></div>
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<i>And usually, they have this sort of admiring and amazed tone.</i></div>
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<i>Shonda, how do you do it all?</i></div>
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<i>Like I'm full of magical magic and special wisdom-ness or something.</i></div>
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<i>How do you do it all?</i></div>
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<i>And I usually just smile and say like, "I'm really organized." Or if I'm feeling slightly kindly, I say, "I have a lot of help."</i></div>
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<i>And those things are true. But they also are not true.</i></div>
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<i>And this is the thing that I really want to say. To all of you. Not just to the women out there. Although this will matter to you women a great deal as you enter the work force and try to figure out how to juggle work and family. But it will also matter to the men, who I think increasingly are also trying to figure out how to juggle work and family. And frankly, if you aren't trying to figure it out, men of Dartmouth, you should be. Fatherhood is being redefined at a lightning-fast rate. You do not want to be a dinosaur.</i></div>
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<i>So women and men of Dartmouth: As you try to figure out the impossible task of juggling work and family and you hear over and over and over again that you just need a lot of help or you just need to be organized or you just need to try just a little bit harder ... as a very successful woman, a single mother of three, who constantly gets asked the question "How do you do it all?" For once I am going to answer that question with 100 percent honesty here for you now. Because it's just us. Because it's our fireside chat. Because somebody has to tell you the truth.</i></div>
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<i>Shonda, how do you do it all?</i></div>
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<i>The answer is this: I don't.</i></div>
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<i>Whenever you see me somewhere succeeding in one area of my life, that almost certainly means I am failing in another area of my life.</i></div>
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<i>If I am killing it on a Scandal script for work, I am probably missing bath and story time at home. If I am at home sewing my kids' Halloween costumes, I'm probably blowing off a rewrite I was supposed to turn in. If I am accepting a prestigious award, I am missing my baby's first swim lesson. If I am at my daughter's debut in her school musical, I am missing Sandra Oh's last scene ever being filmed at Grey's Anatomy. If I am succeeding at one, I am inevitably failing at the other. That is the tradeoff. That is the Faustian bargain one makes with the devil that comes with being a powerful working woman who is also a powerful mother. You never feel a hundred percent OK; you never get your sea legs; you are always a little nauseous. Something is always lost.</i></div>
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<i>Something is always missing.</i></div>
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<i>And yet. I want my daughters to see me and know me as a woman who works. I want that example set for them. I like how proud they are when they come to my offices and know that they come to Shondaland. There is a land and it is named after their mother. In their world, mothers run companies. In their world, mothers own Thursday nights. In their world, mothers work. And I am a better mother for it. The woman I am because I get to run Shondaland, because I get write all day, because I get to spend my days making things up, that woman is a better person—and a better mother. Because that woman is happy. That woman is fulfilled. That woman is whole. I wouldn't want them to know the me who didn't get to do this all day long. I wouldn't want them to know the me who wasn't doing.</i></div>
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<i>Lesson Number Three is that anyone who tells you they are doing it all perfectly is a liar.</i></div>
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<i>OK.</i></div>
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<i>I fear I've scared you or been a little bit bleak, and that was not my intention. It is my hope that you run out of here, excited, leaning forward, into the wind, ready to take the world by storm. That would be so very fabulous. For you to do what everyone expects of you. For you to just go be exactly the picture of hardcore Dartmouth awesome.</i></div>
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<i>My point, I think, is that it is OK if you don't. My point is that it can be scary to graduate. That you can lie on the hardwood floor of your dorm room and cry while your mom packs up your stuff. That you can have an impossible dream to be Toni Morrison that you have to let go of. That every day you can feel like you might be failing at work or at your home life. That the real world is hard.</i></div>
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<i>And yet, you can still wake up every single morning and go, "I have three amazing kids and I have created work I am proud of, and I absolutely love my life and I would not trade it for anyone else's life ever."</i></div>
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<i>You can still wake up one day and find yourself living a life you never even imagined dreaming of.</i></div>
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<i>My dreams did not come true. But I worked really hard. And I ended up building an empire out of my imagination. So my dreams? Can suck it.</i></div>
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<i>You can wake up one day and find that you are interesting and powerful and engaged. You can wake up one day and find that you are a doer.</i></div>
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<i>You can be sitting right where you are now. Looking up at me. Probably—hopefully, I pray for you—hung over. And then 20 years from now, you can wake up and find yourself in the Hanover Inn full of fear and terror because you are going to give the Commencement speech. Dry mouth. Heart beats so, so fast. Everything in slow motion. Pass out, die, poop.</i></div>
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<i>Which one of you will it be? Which member of the 2014 class is going to find themselves standing up here? Because I checked and it is pretty rare for an alum to speak here. It's pretty much just me and Robert Frost and Mr. Rogers, which is crazy awesome.</i></div>
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<i>Which one of you is going to make it up here? I really hope that it's one of you. Seriously.</i></div>
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<i>When it happens, you'll know what this feels like.</i></div>
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<i>Dry mouth. Heart beats so, so fast. Everything moves in slow motion.</i></div>
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<i>Graduates, every single one of you, be proud of your accomplishments. Make good on your diplomas.</i></div>
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<i>You are no longer students. You are no longer works in progress. You are now citizens of the real world. You have a responsibility to become a person worthy of joining and contributing to society. Because who you are today ... that's who you are.</i></div>
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<i>So be brave.</i></div>
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<i>Be amazing.</i></div>
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<i>Be worthy.</i></div>
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<i>And every single time you get a chance?</i></div>
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<i>Stand up in front of people.</i></div>
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<i>Let them see you. Speak. Be heard.</i></div>
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<i>Go ahead and have the dry mouth.</i></div>
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<i>Let your heart beat so, so fast.</i></div>
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<i>Watch everything move in slow motion.</i></div>
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<i>So what?</i></div>
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<i>You what?</i></div>
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<i>You pass out, you die, you poop?</i></div>
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<i>No.</i></div>
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<i>And this is really the only lesson you'll ever need to know ...</i></div>
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<i>You take it in.</i></div>
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<i>You breathe this rare air.</i></div>
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<i>You feel alive.</i></div>
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<i>You be yourself.</i></div>
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<i>You truly finally always be yourself.</i></div>
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<i>Thank you. Good luck.</i></div>
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Haven and Homehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12747895184154272085noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6027267895238090426.post-10350600598930902802015-12-07T21:41:00.000-06:002015-12-07T21:41:55.923-06:00O Christmas Tree<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
When <a href="http://www.greenvalleychristmastrees.com/">Green Valley Christmas Tree</a>s reached out to me to review their trees I thought, "Sure, why not?". It did seem somewhat odd to have our Christmas tree delivered to our door but things have been so crazy lately I figured it was one less thing to worry about. It arrived quickly and the boys were excited to arrive home to such a large box.</div>
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<a href="http://www.greenvalleychristmastrees.com/7-5-to-8-ft-Full-Noble-Fir-Christmas-Tree-p/nft758f.htm">This is the tree they sent me.</a> Initially I had planned to use it for our indoor tree but for a few reasons (none having to do with the tree they sent) I decided to place it in our front yard instead. Our old street puts trees in the front yard and it was always so nice to come home to the lights; I decided to continue on the tradition.</div>
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One tree stand and few stakes later...</div>
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and the tree was up! </div>
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I can honestly say I love it. It is a pretty tree and I was really pleased with the overall appearance and quality. I was slightly nervous to open the box because it did stay in there for a few days longer than I had planned, but it came out looking perfect (not that I would recommend leaving it in the box).</div>
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<a href="http://www.greenvalleychristmastrees.com/">Green Valley Christmas Trees</a> asked me for my honest review-good or bad and I have to say I would give them a perfect rating. I am happy they sent me this tree because it was a great experience, one that I would not have thought of previously. They were fast, friendly, the tree looks great and you can't beat the convenience. I will be keeping them in my mind for future tree purchases!</div>
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I have been meaning to write this post for a couple months now and time has slipped away. I want to thank Birmingham Home & Garden for featuring on of my favorite homes I have ever worked on. Although the issue is no longer out you can still read the article <a href="http://www.birminghamhomeandgarden.com/Birmingham-Home-Garden/May-June-2015/Family-Adventure/">HERE</a>. This client hired me YEARS ago to help on a small project and two houses later here we are. In another post I will take you through in more detail this project with additional images- all the amazing things she trusted me to do and what an amazing labor of love it was.</div>
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Article <a href="http://www.birminghamhomeandgarden.com/Birmingham-Home-Garden/May-June-2015/Family-Adventure/">Birmingham Home & Garden May/June 2015</a>jean , Photography <a href="http://www.jeanallsopp.com/">Jean Allsopp</a></div>
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<br />Haven and Homehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12747895184154272085noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6027267895238090426.post-88072516761204852102015-06-29T09:20:00.001-05:002015-06-29T09:20:50.896-05:00Blast From The Past- Client Nursery<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
We are gearing up for a website redesign in the coming months and as I continue to go through pictures on my computer I keep coming across rooms I have done that have never been seen. This is a nursery I did almost 4 years ago. Since these photos were taken it has become a super cute "big girls room" and I can't wait to share those pictures (when I get them).</div>
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Well hello there, it has been a while. Life has been....well you know how it goes...crazy. Good crazy. I have so much I want to share here but there just is not time in the day these days to sit and post. Maybe someday soon? Maybe.</div>
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I am here today because it is a client's son's first birthday. Happy birthday James! I realized that means I took these pictures a year ago and still have done nothing with them. His nursery is too cute not to share. So I am sharing today ***these pictures I took myself, they are not professional so please excuse the lighting, etc.***</div>
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This space was very small so we had to be very thoughtful but it turned out great. It is one of my favorite rooms in a house filled with a lot of great rooms. From the navy trim, to the fabrics, to the bold pattern on the rug, I love all of it. So much texture and interest in a small space. </div>
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It seems this nursery was popular on Houzz, and I must say, I do love it just as much today as when it was first installed.<br />
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Hello there, if you are like me then today is your first day back after a nice long break...which is hard but welcomed at the same time. I love this time of year because I am always in need of a recharge and I like to reflect back on the past year and look ahead as well. 2014 was one amazing year. The most special part was the birth of our second son Sam, he has been a blessing beyond words. It was also a year of a lot of change and growth with the business which was very exciting. I came off of 2013 exhausted and while 2014 was exhausting as well, it had that spark that made it not feel the same way. This break gave me some clarity I needed and I am looking forward to continuing to build my business while also focusing on balance. </div>
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In addition to the family and work excitement, we also sold our house in December and will be moving into our new house in just a few weeks. My brain has started working through all the things I want to do with this house but you know how it goes...cobbler's kids not having shoes, etc. I hope to be able to share the progress here on the blog so stay tuned. </div>
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I am so excited to see what 2015 has in store, what God has in store. I hope you all were able to rest and recharge over the holidays and I wish for you a very happy 2015!</div>
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In the days of Herod, king of Judea, there was a priest named Zechariah, of the division of Abijah. And he had a wife from the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth. And they were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and statutes of the Lord. But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and both were advanced in years. Now while he was serving as priest before God when his division was on duty, according to the custom of the priesthood, he was chosen by lot to enter the temple of the Lord and burn incense. And the whole multitude of the people were praying outside at the hour of incense. And there appeared to him an angel of the Lord standing on the right side of the altar of incense. And Zechariah was troubled when he saw him, and fear fell upon him. But the angel said to him, "Do not be afraid, Zechariah, for your prayer has been heard, and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John. And you will have joy and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth, for he will be great before the Lord.</div>
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But they need a good home...</div>
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This weekend on my way back to Birmingham from a much needed vacation I listened to a sermon by Tim Keller on work and it was just what I needed. I highly recommend it, especially as we enter into another Monday (no matter what your "work" is) and this busy season and it is easy to get burned out. I am not sure if you can find it online but if you download the app and go to "audio" then "Genesis" you will find it there.</div>
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A client sent me this hose knowing I would like it, which I did. UNTIL I saw that it is $900, well $898. Whatttttttt? Can someone tell me what on Earth makes a hose $900?</div>
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