15 years ago when I started this weblog, the fact that I am easily amazed was more evident in an effervescent and silver-lining kind of way. As a 26 year-old school teacher, it felt totally appropriate at the lunch table one day when a 9-year old student looked up at me with wide eyes of knowing […]
Category Archives: EasilyAmazed
Rediscovering My Voice
I’ve lost my rhythm for writing. Where did it go? The multitiude of ideas, concepts, observations and experiences in my life begin to stack up. One on top of another. Time and energy begin to feel scarce as the possibilities of their use lie before me. How to not only synthesize for myself but to stop and […]
Goodbye Comments
The comments at easily amazed are going to disappear soon. I’m sad about this as there have been some incredible conversations and insights that emerged in those little haloscan boxes. I might post some of them into the original post, we’ll see. Thank you Haloscan for serving me well up until now. It’s a bummer […]
Woa ~ Pure Excitement
A little boy’s pure excitement, a dash of astonishment with a tinge of fear… ahhh, the emotional smorgasbord that accompanies making contact with something new and unknown. Thanks Thomas for this link and for the contagious awe that it’s left me with… and hopefully you too! ~ ~ ~ ~ And after posting this I […]
5 years, 555 times
Happy Belated Birthday, Easily Amazed! In November, this webl (blog) turned 5 years old. Yesterday I posted the 555th post. That’s cause to celebrate!! In the old days when this place of expression and connection was just being birthed, it looked a little like the picture to the left. And then my curiosity about how […]
Giving Thanks and Turning Four
Four years ago I was working at a Montessori school. In the kitchen during snack one day (the school lived inside a sweet little house), I was being me… getting excited about something… I imagine there was lots of energy and a sense of awe in my expression (wink). A nine year old turns to […]
celebrating a cycle
pull out your party hats, your drums and flutes and whistles… summon up the spirit of celebration and join me in wishing easily amazed a happy 1st birthday. (insert joyous sounds and laughter here!) i adore the life that easily amazed has grown into in its first year of sharing and inviting. the exploring, celebrating, […]