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joy and living
Kristin writes honestly about life, love, growth, and the daily practice of joy. New posts every week.
March 12, 2026
Partnering in Crisis
A strong relationship is not just made of love and good communication. It is made of the ability to stay present when everything around you is breaking.
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February 11, 2026
Could It Be Love?
Maybe love is something we have to relax into. Not chase, not earn, not prove ourselves worthy of. Maybe it is always already here, waiting for us to stop running.
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December 1, 2025
A Waylaid Playdate, a Coffee, and a Puppy
The reset I had begun in disappointment became a fulcrum for all that came next. Joy hides in the detours we resist taking.
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October 20, 2025
When the Fig Speaks
If we do not believe in our ability to meet our needs, when we think our well-being depends solely on those around us, we lose touch with our deepest power.
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October 12, 2025
Closing the Loop
This is the bridge of goodbye across hearts, from one plane to the next. Some goodbyes take years. Some take a lifetime. All of them are sacred.
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October 5, 2025
My Summer in a Tomato
My summer in a tomato is about my whole garden, my whole life and all my dreams, concentrated into one bright, improbable, ordinary miracle.
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September 24, 2025
Where's the Joy in Internal Bleeding?
I found a place of infinite love within me to bridge these seemingly finite gaps. Even in the most frightening moments, joy was not absent. It was just quieter.
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September 6, 2025
Chokeberry's Gift
Sometimes we are open to a gift when we understand its benefits. The most bitter things in life can carry the deepest medicine if we are willing to receive them.
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August 31, 2025
Dress for the Water, Not the Weather
What I consider dangerous, you might find to be a cakewalk. This is not a flaw. It is the beautiful diversity of being human.
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August 24, 2025
Finding My Inner Elder
Being an elder is a choice, a practice. It is easy to drift into anger, despair, and powerlessness. It takes deliberate intention to choose wisdom instead.
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August 16, 2025
2 Coffees, 2 Sisters, and a Sale at My Favorite Nursery
All of life is a series of decisions. Carefully, we choose what we love most. And sometimes, if we are lucky, we choose it over and over again.
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August 9, 2025
The Biggest Berries Sometimes Fail Me
The sweetness is in remembering that we can be here for all of it. The abundant harvest and the disappointing one. Both are part of the same love story.
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August 2, 2025
The Saints Preserve Me
Big projects call for shifting my joy practice into high gear. When the stakes feel enormous, that is precisely when we most need to tend the inner life.
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July 26, 2025
Loving Your Neighbors ... Next Level
Abundance is in community. Thank goodness that community, like gratitude, always stretches further than we think it can.
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July 19, 2025
My Grown-up PBJ
What I love about life is how we often get to do over the parts we had no control over when we were young. Reclaiming joy sometimes looks like the simplest things.
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July 9, 2025
Visits with Crow
She flies to the rooftop over my outdoor office, shouting her appreciation for the peanuts. Relationship is everywhere if we are paying attention.
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July 6, 2025
With Wild Abundance
We never grow in isolation. Our thoughts and words have runners, spreading underground, connecting us to things we did not even know we were planting.
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June 14, 2025
The Opening
I think of the thousands of seeds we cast daily in our celebrations and grievances. Which ones are we tending? Which ones are we watering with our attention?
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June 6, 2025
3 Good Things
Balancing the brain's negativity bias by celebrating 3 wins turned things around. This one small practice, done consistently, rewires how you see your entire life.
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May 31, 2025
Prime Time for a Whoopsie
I do not run out of opportunities to practice joy in my life. The mess, the mistakes, the detours. All of it is material. All of it is practice. All of it is the point.
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