My name is Kim. I am a life long New Englander who relocated to the sunny and hot Southeast five years ago. Living in a one season climate can be quite challenging for someone like me who craves the cold and clouds and hills and mountains. We have built a life here together but now we are in the midst of new phase that will eventually find us back in the mountains that I love. A recent road trip back home confirmed and affirmed our plans and I am learning to be patient with the process, knowing that each step we take is one that brings us closer to our goal. Once again I am on a new life journey; this time around I feel more at peace than ever before. For me, home truly is a place and it is essential to be surrounded by nature and the quietude of the mountains and woods. They act as a buffer against the wicked ways of the world as we are currently experiencing it. Through this blog, I still hope to promote humor, honesty, and humility and share the knowledge that no one is ever alone in any struggle that they may face. Beyond life’s toughest trials and rocks in the road, another living and breathing space awaits all of us.
Building A Life Of Hope 
Congratulations, Kim! I am reading your posts … xo Nan
Thank you Nan! I hope that you enjoy reading them as much as I have enjoyed writing them!
XO BACK!
Hi Kim, ou are such an inspiratuin and I am glad to call you my friend!
Hey! Thanks Denise and I feel the same way!
Kim, I enjoy your posts; you write with a verve and positive spirit about the little things in daily life and a wisdom about the real journey. Congratulations, keep it up!
I am already in love kim!
Anna!
So glad that you already are enjoying my stories!
My wish is that you will find strength and inspiration through them.
I am! I am! I took the first step and am now doing my own thing, my independent “groove”! Keep the stories comin; I’m hooked!
Thanks for the sunshine!
Garnett my friend!
Thanks so much for your support!
Good luck getting back into the swing of things and I hope to see you soon.
Check out my latest entry-I know that you will love it!
Kim
Hi Kim, I finally sat down to read your blog-nicely done! I, too, look forward to embracing you as sister. My brother struck gold. Annemarie
Hi Annemarie,
I am thrilled that you have gotten a chance to read my blog! And thank you so much for your kind words; I am happy to be a part of the family! Your brother is a treasure and I am grateful every day that we found one another.
Kim
Hi Kim! It’s Art from Starbucks. I just wanted to thank you for sharing such an inspiring and intimate blog with me (and the rest of the internet!) I look forward to your next post!
Hey thank you! I am so glad that you are following me! And I am even more flattered that you find it inspiring. Peace, Kim
Power to the freeing fifties! I hear you! Thank you for visiting my blog.
This is probably a second follow up comment but that is okay. Still getting used to this whole blogging thing after just 9 months or so. I swear this decade is the best one ever! I was so glad to have paid you a visit. I am a follower of GrayPoet and that is how I found you.
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Hi Kim, I wanted to let you know I have nominated you for a Best Moment Award.
http://graypoet.wordpress.com/2013/04/22/best-moment-award/
My dear man,
You are so kind! I am thrilled and humbled! I love your writing and always, always look forward to your new posts.
Hi Kim, I just came across your blog and already I know I’m going to be an avid follower of your posts! Your personal story that you’ve shared here has touched me deeply and I want to hear more about your journey as and when it unfolds. You are a truly inspirational human being. Thank you and many blessings. Michele
Oh my goodness! Thank you so much! It has been an interesting few years and that is one of the reasons that I started the blog.
So much to say, so much to release. It has been my intention to inspire others through my writing and help them understand that pain and sorrow do not last forever. New Life awaits for those who really want it!
I hope that you can find the time to go back into my older stories! I know that you will love them!
Thank you thank you once again!
Kim, thank you and it’s my utmost pleasure to discover you! I will be sure to find the time to go back into your older stories. Your message is valuable and I, for one, want to be on the receiving end of your wisdom and creative expression. Thank you again! Michele
Not to intrude, but if you share your blog on Facebook, if you’d like to add a friend….. http://www.facebook.com/charlest1955
Hi Charles,
I am working on adding you on my Facebook but my page is configured as a business page.
My Facebook “expert” will be here tomorrow night and I will get help from her then.
Thanks for your patience!
Kim
No problem, just made me curious. I’ll enjoy your posts and not intrude. 🙂
Found you through Kellie Elmore’s Free Write Friday, I enjoy your blog. Hope you will someday take a look at mine when u have the time. Namaste. Laurie at hibernationnow.wordpress.com
Thank you very much! I will surely check your blog out. I am really glad you found me, Laurie.
Your blog is by far the most inspiring I have seen. It seems effortless; the free & easy format. I too am inspired by yoga (but don’t do it often enough). I am learning to schedule it into my life and learning to give up on excuses. Thanks for living out loud and sharing.
Thanks so much for your kind words. I just entered the blogging world late last summer and it certainly has been a wonderful experience! I am still learning all the technical parts of it-like tagging and categorizing (which I have yet to do), widgets, etc. One of these days when I am not inspired to write and reply other blogs I will get down to it.
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Oh my goodness! Thank you Colline; what an honor! Can you tell me more about this (still a rookie in the blogging world)… 🙂
I love how I find an amazing blog by chance…glad you are busy in your new construction jog…I look forward to seeing/reading the architecture and details to your work. Namaste.
Thanks so much for stopping by and for following! I started to check out your site earlier today but my server is acting up so I lost my connection. Trying to catch up with internet business in a frantic manner now! 🙂
🙂 that and power outages, we do lack control. Namaste
Hi Kim, I have nominated you for the Liebster Award. Follow this link on my site for more details. Congratulations. Oliana http://wp.me/p3ia4v-pj
WOW!!! Thank you! I am humbled. Namaste ❤
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WOW! It has been an exciting 10 days! First your Super Sweet Blogger, then just 2 days ago the Leibster and now this! I contacted support last night for help in getting the awards posted to my page. I am not yet savvy with Widgets, etc.. This is a good day for me to take care of blog housekeeping (as well as Kellie’s FWF). I just got back from the doctor’s office with a kidney infection diagnosis! Feeling low on energy so I am forced onto the couch! Thank you from the bottom of my heart! 🙂
Thanks for stopping by my blog! Welcome to the Fabulous Fifties! It’s a great place to live. 🙂 Best of luck, Karen
Hi there, I do not recall stopping by your blog…. but thanks for stopping by mine!
(I did take a peek afterwards and noticed that we gave Kristen Mazzola in common)
ps I do love what you say about the fabulous 50’s we are in the same exact place. thought I wish to have more of your open mindedness for all the everyday changes that we face. i’m trying deep breathing to keep myself centered and learning to meditate. my two kids are both in college as well. nice to trade notes, regards. Laurie
Well, sometimes it is a challenge that is for sure! I am in an acute stressful situation at the moment that is forcing to keep focused on the blessings that I have. But indeed keeping oneself centered and meditative is the key to moving through it! Keep well!
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Great! So Jennie, How do I post this? I have not ever been a guest blogger before…..
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Hi there! I’ve nominated you for the Most Influential Blogger Award! Congrats:)
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Hi! I’ve nominated you for the “Blog Of The Year” Award! Congrats!
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Hi Kim,
I am glad I came across your blog today
Yes in exposing my “garden – My Life” on my blog, I am also building a life of hope amidst all the other things I do in life.
Thanks once more
What a lovely surprise at the end of a long week! Thank you!! 🙂
I, coming from Cameroon in Africa where the average 50+yrs old woman already looks at a possible retirement, is so thrilled to come across the likes of you and others who still go on, blogging ad doing other stuffs and inspiring me and many others all the way.
So happy weekend and know you deserve it 🙂
We’re just getting started in our 50’s! 🙂 Glad to be of positive inspiration.
Kim — I have nominated your blog for a Sunshine Award. Go to my awards page
http://anniesmuse.wordpress.com/awards/ to pick up your button and continue the nomination process.
Thanks for all of your kind words and always being so supportive of my poetry!
Oh my goodness! Thank you very much! It is truly a pleasure to read your words of art. 🙂
Kim … you are always so supportive … this was the least I could do!
It might take me a bit to get the badge onto my home page as I am not so tech savvy. I saved the instructions on how to do it on a piece of paper. The rest is easy though!
Kim … right click on the image and save it with your pictures or on your desktop if you are using a MAC
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Hey Miss Sunshine!
You sure do know how to make a girl feel good!
Wonderful and quite original acceptance post! Glad that I was the universe’s impetus for it. 🙂 The toilet is surely not functioning properly. They need a plumber!
Great plug for all those bloggers.
No doubt I will be checking them out! 🙂
You say: :” . . . . Now I am learning how to live out loud.”
He, I like this attitude..’Not living out loud’ I think this is what I was like very often throughout my life. I always feel much better when I ‘dare’ to ‘live out loud’. I find with age it gets a bit easier to act more confidently. I am really old by now, actually turning 80 this year!. But I think I am a bit like you: I love to wake up early, looking forward to each new day with all its surprises! 🙂
Thank you for your kind words and congratulations on reaching a new decade!
Life is a fragile thing. Experience can either keep us down or force us to rise up, speak up and shed the things that have kept us from realizing our best selves.
Yes, I feel the new decade is going to start soon, less than six more months to go! At the moment I am still confident enough to speak up about things. In a lot of ways I feel better now than let’s say when I was in my fifties. Maybe it was that in my fifties I could not ‘realize my best self’.
I know what you mean! I felt that way in my forties, no doubt!
Hi Kim! I’ve nominated your beautiful blog for the One Lovely Blog Award. 🙂 http://shakespearesgal.wordpress.com/2014/05/06/a-horse-is-never-just-a-horse/ … Be well, Dorothy
Oh wow! Thank you! How does it work?
Hi Kim, Can you email me at kelsolive@gmail.com when you get a chance, I want to ask you something blog/writing related. Thanks, Kelly
Yes, the fifties are a wonderful, empowering time. And the sixties, an even stronger freedom, seasoned with my own knowing. Look forward to sharing in your joy.
I’m so honored to know you! thank you for sharing your link and inviting me to your readership!!
I am quite humbled by your compliment. More so, I am thrilled that you have joined my following! Enjoy the reading! 🙂
Hi!
Good day!
And thank you for the follow!
I nominated you for the Three Quote Challenge. If you are interested, you can find more information here
https://momtheobscure.wordpress.com/2016/02/18/three-quote-challenge-day-2-21816/