Tag Archives: angela giles klocke As of today, there are 18 days left until the end of Lent, and I’m restless. I’ve revamped my blog to bring it more in line with my photography, worked on the new direction (or rather, more streamlined direction) of my business, and journaled and read and sat in a lot of silence. The truth…  “I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.” -Attributed to Mark Twain A friend reminds me constantly, “All is well.” As a mom, as a wife, as a woman, I have to grab this idea and hold on tightly because life is often too scary…  I want to run run run! I want to cross the finish line of a marathon! I want to feel the wind in my hair because I’m pushing my way through air, not because it’s pushing me. I want to achieve! I want to grasp joy and hold it and spread it around and leap…  14 What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save them? 15 Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food. 16 If one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,” but does…  “Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.” -Marcel Proust “Hm, I never read Proust, I always wanted to. Every now and then, I’m seized with an overwhelming urge to say something like ‘As Marcel Proust would say…’ but of course I have no idea what Marcel Proust would…  Do you run when it gets hard? Do you quit when you’re scared? That’s been my modus operandi for years. YEARS! And sometimes I still stand before the mighty decision of fight-or-flight and play out the game because I need to. The difference is, I rarely just quit anymore. I take to heart that line… Fifteen years ago today, my life changed. An old life of heartbreak and pain and lots and lots of tears came to an end, and a new life of hope and growth and joy began. But the journey to who I am today didn’t magically happen with the ending of one life. It’s been a…  “I think I’m going to be a writer and a photographer and see where that takes me instead of trying to force it to take me somewhere.” I wrote that in my last post. I know what I meant when I said it, but I have chewed it over for the last couple of days,… 
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