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On June…
I need a reset, a boost, a motivation for my writing life.Perhaps, you??I sit at my desk on Saturday, the last day of May as we count time, a few hours remain. I scratch out a few notes, scrawl a list. And then another.My brain is intrigued. I jot a question. Make a short list […]
I Will Hold You in the Light
I will hold you in the light. I will hold you in the light.YOU.Who feels hollowed, you who feels as if wholeness was long ago swallowed and the only hallowed ground around you is littered with broken dreams and empty explanations of what might have been, what could have been, what should have been. The […]
Who Will We Find Inside?
She looks at me and I look at her.So very, very familiar, and also foreign. Some days she seems a completely different person. For the actuality is, she is…and she isn’t. I wander through a corridor of memories.Ponytails, lopsided, looped with elastics crossed over the bright blue balls at each end.First grade. Frightened. Sixth grade. Sick […]
The Compassion of Companioned Presence Without Pressure
The wind howls outside as it’s done all day. I am weary of it. It bears down hard as I step out the backdoor, my arms laden with bags and boxes.I wave at my nieces as I deliver supper to the wheat field. I greet them and tell them I feel quite complainy about the […]
The Backyard Beckoned a Beauty Hunt
The backyard beckoned a beauty hunt.I acquiesced as I fumbled for worn ebony flip-flops. Once outside, our June breeze swings friendly combat, gives challenge to the muggy air. The humidity wins and my t-shirt begins to cling to my back as the heavy air presses in on skin and the sun reappears in a hide-and-seek game […]
The Second Collection of Liturgies of the Little Things
A Glimpse If you look out my kitchen window you catch a glimpse of our backyard.The rosebushes, messy grass, arborvita.Wooden trim frames the window. Curtains flutter from the tension rod inside the sill.This is the visual. This is what you see.Yet it’s a fraction of the whole, a paragraph apart from the whole story.You won’t […]
September Kaleidoscope
“Attention – deep, sustained, undeviating – is in itself an experience of a very high order.” ~ Roberto Gerhard Books Delightful Incidentals I measured flour and butter and sugar. A bit of vanilla and water and stirred up pie dough this last week of September. The oven hummed its pre-heat song as I rolled out […]
A Collection To Keep Company With
The August heat bears down on us. It’s been insufferable, exhausting, inescapable.Relentless and unrelenting.This week has wilted our crops, withered the tomato vines, and waned most of our ambition. The fierce sun and temperatures topping over one hundred are good for only a handful of things.Swimming, splashing, sprinklers.Air conditioning, icy arnold palmers, and as little […]
On the Power of Distraction
Dust lays around my living room, but perhaps the beauty of blooms will distract from it. Fruitflies have managed to find their way indoors. The frantic buzz frustrates me. I find the leather swatter. I can’t abide flies in my house or my Yukon. They are one of life’s trials and annoyances. Even the audiobook […]
June Kaleidoscope
Kaleidoscope:Combined from three Greek words:kalos (καλός), meaning “beautiful,”eidos (εἶδος), meaning “shape,”and skopos (σκοπός), meaning either “watcher” or “thing looked at.”Kaleidoscope: beautiful shapes to look at,observer of beautiful forms.Kaleidoscope:constantly changing pattern,medley, mixture. Kaleidoscope living.An observer of beauty. Delighting in Details. Noticing shapes and nuances. Giving gratitude for aesthetics and texture.Our lives are stories.Our stories are a […]
On Toy Tractors, Pink Rugs, and Farming in Real Life
From across the field, this view from my living room windows – the ones in want of a good washing – often transports me to the land of toys and make-believe. From across the field, from my front porch – the one where random dog toys and chew ropes and two dogs sprawl – it […]
April Kaleidoscope
Kaleidoscope:Combined from three Greek words:kalos (καλός), meaning “beautiful,”eidos (εἶδος), meaning “shape,”and skopos (σκοπός), meaning either “watcher” or “thing looked at.”Kaleidoscope: beautiful shapes to look at,observer of beautiful forms.Kaleidoscope:constantly changing pattern,medley, mixture. Kaleidoscope living.An observer of beauty. Paying attention to details. Noticing shapes and nuances. Giving gratitude for aesthetics and texture.Our lives are stories.Our stories are […]
The Spiral Bible New Testament
{affiliate links in this post. Thank you!} It’s the first day of spring! The wind HOOOOWLS outside my windows.My good farmer man battles the dust and blowing dirt this wind kicks up. He sends me pictures of the curved lines furrowed in the dirt from tractor and ripper. Continued blowing dirt will ruin our wheat […]
November and Gratitude and A Bible, A Book, and A Study Guide Giveaway
“Gratitude is at the center of a life of faith. It sounds too simple to be true, but isn’t that the sign of all deep truth: so simple we’re tempted to dismiss it, and so hard, it is exactly what God uses to change our hard lives.” ~ Ann Voskamp Comrades! November is gracing our […]
The Good and Beautiful Bookset Giveaway
Is it fall where you are? It is decidedly NOT here in Kansas. Teehee. Our thermometers keep climbing to the high nineties and the rain continues to refuse our hearty invitations!We did have one weekend of lovely weather and cooler temps.We built a fire in the Solo stove and basked in savoring it. TODAY!!! A […]
