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Comments on: When The Light Returns https://fatfreevegan.com/slowmiracle/2019/12/20/when-the-light-returns/ Living Well with MS. Stories. Recipes. Hope. Fri, 27 Jun 2025 09:07:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.34 By: Maria Theresa Maggi https://fatfreevegan.com/slowmiracle/2019/12/20/when-the-light-returns/#comment-42730 Mon, 17 Feb 2020 22:42:37 +0000 https://fatfreevegan.com/slowmiracle/?p=8233#comment-42730 That sounds great Colleen! Keep my posted!! 🙂

]]> By: Colleen https://fatfreevegan.com/slowmiracle/2019/12/20/when-the-light-returns/#comment-42729 Mon, 17 Feb 2020 22:02:23 +0000 https://fatfreevegan.com/slowmiracle/?p=8233#comment-42729 I got caught in one of those between Yuma and Phoenix. It was quite an experience and a good memory given that everything worked out, even without the red dirt.

I will absolutely be buying a PNW place in about a year, if I live that long and stay healthy enough to travel. There is no hidden meaning in that sentence, it is just that the older I get the more obvious it becomes to me that tomorrow, let alone next year, is a hope not a given. I won’t be living there for a few years until I retire, but I plan to rent it out and make a couple of trips a year to check in on the place until I can actually move. I would love to meet you on one of my trips!

]]> By: Maria Theresa Maggi https://fatfreevegan.com/slowmiracle/2019/12/20/when-the-light-returns/#comment-42721 Mon, 17 Feb 2020 17:50:43 +0000 https://fatfreevegan.com/slowmiracle/?p=8233#comment-42721 It was my pleasure. Your comment reminded me of some of my neighbors down the street who spend the “winter” in Arizona and the “summers” here. Perhaps you will make your way back to Oregon! Your comments reminded me of long ago when I came for a teaching job interview in Northern Arizona in the Spring. My then 5 year old son and I pulled over during a thunderstorm around Kingman and watched the sky and then saw a beautiful rainbow. That wet red dirt. <3

]]> By: Colleen https://fatfreevegan.com/slowmiracle/2019/12/20/when-the-light-returns/#comment-42692 Sat, 15 Feb 2020 18:43:32 +0000 https://fatfreevegan.com/slowmiracle/?p=8233#comment-42692 Lovely and a reminder of why I am working so diligently, if slowly, on getting back to Oregon. In Arizona we hibernate in the summer and the care folks in the PNW must take in the winter we must take in the summer. It feels wrong, to me, to be in that state while surrounded by almost perpetual binding white light. In the end, though, being in love with the world is the very essence of what we all are regardless of the length of days or threat of weather. We just forget our essence in the challenges we mostly make for ourselves if we are privileged. Thank you for bringing us back to our essences.

]]> By: Maria Theresa Maggi https://fatfreevegan.com/slowmiracle/2019/12/20/when-the-light-returns/#comment-42067 Mon, 23 Dec 2019 17:12:44 +0000 https://fatfreevegan.com/slowmiracle/?p=8233#comment-42067 Dear Veronica, thank you for these beautiful kind words, which are a blessing to me! here’s to us both having enough yarn and beautiful sunsets and slowing down to “just be.” xoxo

]]> By: Veronica https://fatfreevegan.com/slowmiracle/2019/12/20/when-the-light-returns/#comment-42066 Mon, 23 Dec 2019 16:20:26 +0000 https://fatfreevegan.com/slowmiracle/?p=8233#comment-42066 I love how your knitting came out just right! That’s happened to me a couple times, and it feels wonderful 🙂
I do love winter sunsets, and how winter forces us to slow down and just be. That photo of Cotton and you with the sunset is beautiful! The ocean just adds to the wonderment of colors – with its reflections and texture.
Merry Christmas, Maria. May the happy memories of Romeo along with Cotton’s snuggles help keep you warm <3
xoxo

]]> By: Maria Theresa Maggi https://fatfreevegan.com/slowmiracle/2019/12/20/when-the-light-returns/#comment-42049 Sun, 22 Dec 2019 18:47:05 +0000 https://fatfreevegan.com/slowmiracle/?p=8233#comment-42049 My pleasure, Cynthia! 🙂

]]> By: Cynthia Dunn https://fatfreevegan.com/slowmiracle/2019/12/20/when-the-light-returns/#comment-42047 Sun, 22 Dec 2019 17:58:25 +0000 https://fatfreevegan.com/slowmiracle/?p=8233#comment-42047 One of my favorite songs and such a beautiful rendition. Thanks.

]]> By: Maria Theresa Maggi https://fatfreevegan.com/slowmiracle/2019/12/20/when-the-light-returns/#comment-42022 Fri, 20 Dec 2019 21:35:32 +0000 https://fatfreevegan.com/slowmiracle/?p=8233#comment-42022 Thank you for these kind words, Johnnye (JR), they are very much appreciated, as is your readership. I am honored. <3 Focusing on such things gives me the strength to keep working for the world I love, in word and deed. Peace back to you in the coming year, too.

]]> By: Johnnye Denman https://fatfreevegan.com/slowmiracle/2019/12/20/when-the-light-returns/#comment-42019 Fri, 20 Dec 2019 20:56:53 +0000 https://fatfreevegan.com/slowmiracle/?p=8233#comment-42019 Enjoyed your lovely post so much, Maria, including the Bill Evans piano (which I like so much). Your always positive attitude reminds me not to allow negativity to cloud my time left on this planet. I’m sure I will reread this post to bolster my own resolve. I wish you and Cotton a wondrous Christmas, many beautiful sunsets in all seasons, and peace in the upcoming year.

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