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<!--Generated by Squarespace Site Server v5.5.4 (http://www.squarespace.com/) on Sun, 05 Jul 2009 03:45:19 GMT--><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"><title>Ordinary Courage</title><subtitle>my blog</subtitle><id>http://www.ordinarycourage.com/my-blog/</id><link rel="alternate" type="application/xhtml+xml" href="http://www.ordinarycourage.com/my-blog/"/><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.ordinarycourage.com/my-blog/atom.xml"/><updated>2009-07-03T18:31:08Z</updated><generator uri="http://www.squarespace.com/" version="Squarespace Site Server v5.5.4 (http://www.squarespace.com/)">Squarespace</generator><entry><title>tgif + chookooloonks giveaway!</title><category term="tgif"/><id>http://www.ordinarycourage.com/my-blog/2009/7/2/tgif-chookooloonks-giveaway.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.ordinarycourage.com/my-blog/2009/7/2/tgif-chookooloonks-giveaway.html"/><author><name>Brené Brown</name></author><published>2009-07-03T02:25:12Z</published><updated>2009-07-03T02:25:12Z</updated><content type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[<p><span class="full-image-block ssNonEditable"><span><img src="http://www.ordinarycourage.com/storage/TGIF-full-banner.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1246587968906" alt="" /></span></span></p>
<p>Happy 4th of July weekend! We're celebrating the holiday weekend with a wonderful giveaway from my good friend <a href="http://www.chookooloonks.com/blog/" target="_blank">Karen over at Chookooloonks</a>! Two lucky winners will get a set of her <a href="http://chookooloonks.bigcartel.com/product/notecards-botanical-series" target="_blank">beautiful botanical series notecards!</a> It's like winning a bouquet!</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">All you have to do to win is leave a comment (before Monday) telling us:</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>1. Who/what are you trusting today?</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>2. Who/what are you grateful for today?</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>3. Who/ what is inspiring you today?</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">&nbsp;</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Here's mine:</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Today, I'm <strong>trusting </strong>that it's OK to slow down. Take time off. Do nothing.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span class="ital-inline">I'm <strong>grateful</strong> for </span><span class="ital-inline">fresh flowers, really cold iced-tea, and <a href="http://www.opi.com/" target="_blank">OPI's nail color, "Party in my Cabana."</a> I'm the last person in the free world who would actually host a party in a cabana, but I love the poppy pink!</span><span class="ital-inline"><br /></span></p>
<p><span class="ital-inline">I'm <strong>inspired </strong>by the goodness of </span><span class="ital-inline">my family. My big, complicated, wonderful, imperfect, messy, amazing, love-you-'till-it-hurts family. </span><span class="ital-inline"> </span></p>
<p><span class="ital-inline">Happy TGIF! Can't wait to read your comments!<br /></span></p>]]></content></entry></feed>