Kali J Desautels

Happy National Doughnut Day!!

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Do all things with love. What does that mean to you? Love for yourself? Love for your family? Love for your friends? Love for humanity? Love for your job? Love for Mother Earth? Love for your God? Love for animals?

For me it means all of those:

•love myself = mental, spiritual, and physical health

•love my family = walking along side each one as much as possible, helping where I can, listening where I can, or sending incessant gifs wherever (in)appropriate

•love my friends = listening to them, helping where I can, genuinely caring for them, thoughtful gifts (I was raised with “little I love you’s” and giving is definitely one of my love languages)

•love for humanity = do all things with kindness, speak for those who cannot, and in essence – do unto others, as you would have them do unto you. Or as Michelle Obama says “when they go low, we go high”. Respect the cultures, beliefs, and pain suffered by others, and learn from it. Learn it well and without defensiveness.

•love my job = do my tasks to the best of my ability, be available, and genuinely, truly care about the outcome of my tasks. Respect the organization by sharing our good works whenever possible, and striving to bring success to my team

•love for Mother Earth = lowering my carbon footprint, teaching my children and modelling low waste behaviours, making small changes every day to respect her, and take moments every day to appreciate her in all her beauty, in all her turmoil, in all her spirit

•love my God = remaining connected to my spiritual, optimistic, and ritualistic beliefs.

•love for animals = creating an environment where they are safe and loved. A space where they are not harmed for frivolity. This one has taken me the longest to achieve. I spent most of my life ranging from fearful of to ambivalent to animals. It is only with the adoption and eventual mutual love for my ragamuffin Timon that I have learned to appreciate and find beauty in most animals (and also through Rhe Rhe. She is seriously persuasive!!!)

« Do everything in love » ~ First Corinthians 16:14

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I was reminded today of one of the great oratory passages of the 20th Century today. I was reminded that we are fighting our own battles, and that we are all going to get criticism. We can either let the critics cause us to flee, and feel ashamed, or we can take the critiques, and keep going. Use them to make us stronger, or use them as a reason to quit. No one can fight our battles for us, and no one can give up for us.

The Man in the Arena

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” ~ Citizenship in a Republic is the title of a speech given by the former President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, at the Sorbonne in Paris, France on April 23, 1910.

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My girl is finished her second year of musical theatre. I have watched her throw her whole heart into James and the Giant Peach, learning the lines and lyrics to every single part including her own. I have watched her battle her reticence to speak up, her anxiety, her personal challenges, and develop her confidence on and off stage. I have watched as she let her inner comedienne loose, and laughed and found joy in her expressive character. Today, I got to stand with her in the wings as she prepared for her final performance of the year. My sweet girl, taller than the others, but still my little one, standing slightly closer than usual, but not quite reaching for my hand; I know that she was happy I was there, but also strong enough in that moment to not need me to physically hold her.

This is being her mom. This is my girl, from the moment she was born. This is the kid who made me a mom. This is the kid of my dreams, better than I ever imagined, filling me with pride and love. This is my girl, right before her very last dance of the year, before she strode confidently onto the stage, and out of her comfort zone.

#bobby #cop #jamesandthegiantpeach #roalddahl #peach🍑 #James #mygirl❤️ #mydaughter #daughterlove #bravesoul #confidenceboost #performances #dancedance #stagemom #familyset #families #braveheart #momstruggles #dancemoms #theaterkids #kalidesautelsreads

Happy birthday, Dave! We are midway through 2019, which has definitely been the hardest of our 20 years together, and the hardest of your 35 years on this earth. I am so proud of you, and grateful for you. You are so brave, and in this awful situation you have found ways to bring joy, and to work to open your Etsy shop. You have found your voice as an artist and as a person living into your truth. I love you so much. Happy birthday, babe.

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Seriously! Look how pretty this cake is!! Our friend knew that Dave’s birthday is tomorrow and that I would definitely not be baking tonight, so she took it upon herself to make her 3rd ever cake. One of Dave’s all-time favourite cakes is Funfetti, and he only likes a small amount of icing, so he was pretty thrilled when this showed up at our door this evening!!

You guys don’t even know how much we appreciate this. For 6 months, we have been living with cancer in our family, and there are so many people who have unflagging in your support. Thank you so much!

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A is for Awesomeness!

In case no one told you today… you’re awesome! 😎 Keep that up!

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There is beauty everywhere. This gorgeous rose bush is in an industrial park in a suburban town, exactly where you do not stop to look for lovely things, passing through on the way to other places.

“Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.” –Mahatma Gandhi

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The look of wonder at the beautiful creatures of the sea.

One of my closest friend’s worked for the Canadian Border Control Service in BC, and explained that when aquatic animals or reptiles are seized at our border from smugglers, they cannot be safely returned to their native countries easily, if at all. This leaves the problem of how to care for these creatures, without harming Vancouver’s ecosystems. She explained that as much as the Vancouver Aquarium has been maligned for housing wildlife, they are the place that most often rescues aquatic animals and reptiles that would otherwise be euthanized.

So, with their current focus on demonstrating how plastic is filling the oceans, and their rescue efforts of animals that will no longer be able to part of their native habitat, through the illegal wildlife trade, I am happy that my friend took my daughter on the weekend to see these beautiful creatures and to understand why we are low waste and using metal instead of disposable straws.

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INVICTUS

Out of the night that covers me,

Black as the Pit from pole to pole,

I thank whatever gods may be

For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance

I have not winced nor cried aloud.

Under the bludgeonings of chance

My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears

Looms but the Horror of the shade,

And yet the menace of the years

Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,

How charged with punishments the scroll,

I am the master of my fate:

I am the captain of my soul. ~ William Ernest Henley

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