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I created a website to share more about my time in Costa Rica- follow link in my profile and join my adventure. 🌎 thanks to @emtimmermans for the fun logo design and @lizzymcclure for the name idea! (at Marina Pez Vela)

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"She colors vivid, her lands are foreign. She sees what needs to heal, invites chance in exchange for battalions that stir and alter a universe. " - @lauren.elrick mornings here are so beautiful! Waking up slowly with coffee and reading on the balcony. @lydiatoll had to leave yesterday, but it was so fun to share a few days here. I am so grateful for her help moving and getting settled. ☕️ (at Colinas Del Este Quepos)

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I had so much fun painting with the neighbor kids after school. We trade Spanish for English lessons and art class for dinner with their family! ❤️🎨 #joyinthejungle (at Colinas Del Este Quepos)

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What a joy this family is and a pleasure to get to know them, their church, and city today! ✌🏻️❤️ (at Costa Rica San José)

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It's nice to be greeted by a friendly monkey and even friendlier host family after a Long day of travel!! 💫🙉❤️ (at Juan Santamaría International Airport)

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🎶My heart beating, my soul breathing, I found my life when I laid it down. Upward falling, Spirit Soaring. I touch the sky, when my knees hit the ground. Come sweep me up in your love again, and my soul will dance on the wings of forever! ❤️

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I am so happy to have so many spectacular friends and family. It makes for a lot of bittersweet farewells! I will carry everyone in my heart and hope to stay in touch. Your friendship means the world to me. I would love to have everyone come to visit Costa Rica this year and help me write this next chapter of my story ❤️🙌🏻✨🌎 (at Minneapolis, Minnesota)

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It's so fun to flip through all these memories made tonight sharing little pieces of my heart through art with friends as they came to my Hasta La Vista Fiesta tonight! #joyfulheart (at Saint Louis Park, Minnesota)

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"Stop right now. Remake your life from the inside out. " 💫 This book by @sniequist dropped today and I am listening. A creative, challenging, life altering work is ahead. (at Minneapolis, Minnesota)

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Happy Sunday!! I am hosting a moving sale and Selling all I own today... But first coffee & Doughnuts! @bogartsdoughnuts (at Bogart's Doughnut Co.)

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Getting a little sentimental as I sort through my home and mark things to sell or keep. I have so enjoyed this little space. These walls have seen the happiest of moments and the depths of grief. These couches have held happy friends and my body as I've wept. The coffee table has been a stage for more glasses of wine and cups coffee than I can count. The frames filled with ever changing photos and paintings of life's artful moments. I have always loved this verse from Hebrews 11:13 of those who lived by faith: "How did they do it? They saw it way off in the distance, waved their greeting, and accepted the fact that they were transients in this world. People who live this way make it plain that they are looking for their true home. If they were homesick for the old country, they could have gone back any time they wanted. But they were after a far better country than that—heaven country. You can see why God is so proud of them, and has a City waiting for them." I am comforted by the thought that My home is wherever God is with me. And He is everywhere. ❤️ (at Kingfield Neighborhood)

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Spending a Lovely Sunday up on Leech Lake 🌾 (at Andersons Horseshoe Bay Lodge)

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Lost in a myriad of color. 🎨 thanks @jamie.chai this beautiful birthday gift painting by @alison.price

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A week after my birthday this cake needs to be eaten = Cake for breakfast! 🎈

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"Paper Bag" happy hour 🍓 (at McCormick & Schmick's Seafood & Steaks)

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Just hanging out ✌🏻️ Under some trees as the creek sweeps beneath Laughing waters Rushing river Falls upstream Down a hundred steps Winding a crooked path Round a bridge of fallen oaks Through the valley, open meadow Past a swimming circle I found a pair of perfect branches To pass away an hour In their cascading shadow 🌿 (at Minnehaha Falls)

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The Hennepin Theater Trust annual volunteer appreciation is always a good time. Its been such a joy to be an ambassador with them for the last 5 years. It was great to celebrate with a banquet at Basils tonight. 🍸 (at IDS Center)