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V & Kate & Otto & Etta as a young family
Poetry and Other Life Stuff 

This Changes Everything

April 21, 2022April 21, 2022 Veronica Beck 1 Comment breaking generational patterns, healing, intergenerational healing, poetry

A poem about being enough.

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Poetry and Other Life Stuff 

Start Where I Am

January 26, 2022January 27, 2022 Veronica Beck 0 Comments healing, mental health, self-compassion

I am all sorts of discombobulated.

We recently finished a big house project that necessitated getting EVERYTHING out of three bedrooms — beds, dressers, nightstands —along with everything off the walls. Furniture, clothes, and boxes of knick knacks were jammed into every nook and cranny of the house for nearly three weeks ….

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montage of raindrops on foliage
Poetry and Other Life Stuff 

rainy day walk

November 27, 2021November 27, 2021 Veronica Beck 1 Comment poetry

i like to notice
small things: whole worlds residing
in a single drop

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Poetry and Other Life Stuff 

a prayer for wonder

November 22, 2021November 23, 2021 Veronica Beck 8 Comments healing, poetry

once I worked
for an old dying man
whose window framed
a stunning view:

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Kate and V three weeks after the first date
Poetry and Other Life Stuff 

the question

June 15, 2021June 15, 2021 Veronica Beck 0 Comments facing fear, things in my pocket book preview

“Ugh! Why did I agree to do this?” I cursed under my breath as I stomped around the hotel room,

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Veronica Beck

I’m Veronica Beck, technical writer, blogger, and “Mama” in a two-mom family. (Kate is “Mommy”.)  Read more …

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  • This Changes Everything April 21, 2022
  • Start Where I Am January 26, 2022
  • rainy day walk November 27, 2021
  • a prayer for wonder November 22, 2021
  • Big Rocks, Little Rocks, and Sand July 27, 2021

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