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December 02, 2021

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Upside Down Kris: Have you ever wondered what the world would look like from upside down? Kristen Mastromarchi wondered the same and many other things as she started her blog Upside Down Kris, which aims to inspire or help people through storytelling.

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A Christmas Tale for a Christmas Season
A dance to start a relationship
A fantastic look at time keeping
A humorous look at the plight of locked bikes
A series of last times
A vine as a timeline
A word to help you in sticky situations
Accepting birth and death
according to be
Age is all in how you look at it

An awakening thought
Animal Therapy
Are we too critical?
art
Asking Santa for what I really want
Autumn Abroad
Balconies in the morning
Beauty catching my eye
Being a sprite at any age
Being my own Beauty Catcher
Being on the outside of information
cat lovers
Choosing your last meal
Christmas memories
Clarity from the sky
Cleaning My Pipes
Contemplating Grace
Contemplating Rain
Contemplating scars
Contemplating Silence
Contemplating Statues
Contemplating the lack of sound
Contemplating two butterfies
Controlling a class
Dealing with my dark side
Departing Gift
Describing an important souvenir
Describing the atmosphere before a storm
Describing the day
different change
Different places
Double Christmas Stories before the holidays!
Facing personal and other's personal clean up
Feeding the birds is human
Feeling like I'm in a thiriller movie
Feeling rather pickled
Feeling Spring
Finding Myself Though Play
Flowing into Freedom
For cat lovers
Fourth week of Magic Moments
Gaining insight Through Sickness
Getting pulled under
Getting used to Daylight Savings
Giving thanks for family
Helping another being
How could a morning be complete without some flapjacks?
How could I not follow an entry on day without an entry on morning?
How do we remember?
How faking it affects our brain
How heat feels
How heaven would be
How I see my position in the world right now
How is it possible to feel two totally opposite things?
How my hearing has changed
How our perceptions shape our world
How perceptions change
How summer feels to me
How to be ourselves
How to live with scars
How to start something
How wise the brain is
I challenge myself to newness
Ideal Self
It's all in the perspective
Learning how to gracefully leap in life
Learning to ilve in imbalance
Life
Life described in chocolates
Looking Through the Eyes of a Dog
love
Magic
Meditating on the us of make-up
Memories as a camp counselor
Moments
Much needed gray
Musing on the sun's energy
Musings on sound and humidity
My admiration of Japan
My definition of success
My description of pure poetry
My Favorite Summer Foods
My feet ready to go
My idea of perfection
My impressions of a poem
My point of view of a palm watching us
My Red Appreciation
My thoughts as tea
New Language
New Life
Newness in recipes
Newness particularly new recipes
Ode to Autumn
Out at 8
out in a storm
outsmarting a cockroach
Overcoming a big problem
Perceptions of the carnival
Plunging into Change
Pondering War
Preparing for Christmas
Questioning our Deck of Cards
Questioning reality
Reclaiming the wonder of childhood
Reflecting on love
Reflecting on my Lines
Reflecting on Recovery
Reflecting on what's truly important for me
Reflections on childhood and "grown up" Thanksgivings
Reflections on slowing down
reflections on the randomness of prices
Reflections over a Cappuccino
Regaining my inner smile
Saying goodbye through laughter
Saying Goodbye to 2023
Seeing the end
Sharing the bed
Singing our own song
Singing with sailors
Sleepy mornings
Small Steps to Progess
Sophie
Standing up to the Storm
Taking off
Taking time to wake up
Tale telling
Thanks in the Everday
The 4th on my Mind
The answer after an argument
The Beauty of the Beach in the morning
The Bravery of Animals
The difference between a Daydream and a Dream Day
The end of carnival
The gifs I leave behind
The healing process
The highlights from my first week of newness
The illusion of self
The Importance of Belief in Intelligence
The importance of intention
The last week in my newness journey
The Magic of really walking
The Power of the Sea
The power to move with the voice
The sound of cicadas
The Sunday Vibe
The Symbol of a Snake
The World of the Sea
Thinking about other lives
Thinking about the importance of names
Thinking about the turns and twists of a single day
Thinking about the words and colors we're made of
This Year's Resolutions
Those truly important moments
Transitioning back into routine
Trying to figure out your identity
Trying to piece myself together
Understanding what's in the bag of life
Waking Strategies
Wanting Meaning
What are we truly made of?
What consitutes earning?
What does your smile mean to you?
What I'm thankful for
What if cities were people
What if frustration were a person?
What if happiness were a person?
What is a hero?
What is freedom
What is the art of living?
What is true sweetness?
What is your inner child trying to say?
What magnetism means
What to do with being woken up
What unites us in our thanks
What we notice (and don't notice)
What's in a spice
When reality hurts
When to accept tolerance
When we finally notice
When you feel lost trying to decide what you should do versus what you want to do
Where does Christmas Spirit come from?
Wonder
wondering about another street human
Wondering about People
Wondering about sea life
Wondering about someone's story
Worshipping Cookie Monster

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