It’s my birthday month and I have many goals, hopes, and wishes. One of those is to drum up support for the YWCA Cass Clay. This nonprofit is near and dear to my heart. The staff and volunteers give so much of themselves to create a compassionate, caring, and healing environment for vulnerable women and children in my community. Please consider making a contribution to my fundraiser for the YWCA – every bit helps ❤
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Posted by Jacqueline on November 2, 2018
https://justonetake.com/2018/11/02/please-consider-supporting-the-ywca/
Where in the Midwest or elsewhere would you recommend going to capture the colors of Autumn?
Please share your ideas in the comments below 🙂
It’s a time of transition in the Midwestern United States and other cooler climates. The transition between summer and winter, warm weather and cold, frappuccinos and hot apple cider, baseball and football and leaving and going to work in the sun to in the dark. It’s Autumn.
Another thing that is changing is deciduous trees are going from green and lively to bare. One of the things that makes me and many others happy is what happens in-between. Let’s call it the colors of Autumn.
Recently I’ve gone around parts of Michigan and Ohio to capture these Autumn colors. Now that’s what a hard frost looks like!
A close up shot of the previous tree. Orange and yellow, beautiful.
Along with frost on the ground (and car windows ahhhh) comes a cool Autumn mist hovering over the water. Well unfortunately after the leaves changing color, the time will come for…
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Posted by Jacqueline on November 1, 2018
https://justonetake.com/2018/11/01/the-colors-of-autumn-in-the-midwest/
“Fake it til you make it. There’s some good life advice. I’ll try and fake being normal. There, now that’s some sound advice… Isn’t it?”
Posted by Jacqueline on November 1, 2018
https://justonetake.com/2018/11/01/normal/
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I am a living, breathing, feeling being who is a walking cluster-f*ck of inner turmoil and conflict.
Posted by Jacqueline on October 31, 2018
https://justonetake.com/2018/10/31/i-am-human/
Posted by Jacqueline on October 30, 2018
https://justonetake.com/2018/10/30/the-choices-we-make/
A blank page is a beautiful thing.
The paper patiently waits, never rushing a writer – never mocking, though an aspiring author may imagine that very thing.
But no matter how frustrated the writer becomes, whether the words are brilliant, broken, or a nonsensical stream of consciousness – the paper forms no judgement or proffers insensitive criticisms.
Posted by Jacqueline on October 28, 2018
https://justonetake.com/2018/10/28/a-blank-page-is-a-beautiful-thing/
What I wish I could have told myself at twenty-five:
Posted by Jacqueline on September 26, 2018
https://justonetake.com/2018/09/26/what-i-wish-i-could-have-told-myself-at-twenty-five/
Posted by Jacqueline on September 26, 2018
https://justonetake.com/2018/09/26/only-a-house/
Posted by Jacqueline on August 27, 2018
https://justonetake.com/2018/08/27/coming-soon-transactional-love/
Love comes in many forms. Author C.S. Lewis wrote about the “four loves” he learned of via his study of Greek wisdom – storge, philia, eros, and agape. Love can also be expressed in a variety of ways. Gary Chapman wrote about this in his best-selling book “The Five Love Languages.” But this post is not about the “four loves.” Nor is it about the expression of love This entry is about the bastardization of love – also known as “transactional love.”
Posted by Jacqueline on August 27, 2018
https://justonetake.com/2018/08/27/transactional-relationships/
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