"And now these three remain…faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love."
It’s been too long since I counted the daily joys, and there were so many days of treading water and fighting the current just to keep my head above water that things seemed to fade and blend into one big, long blur. So I’m doing my best to paddle back to shore, or at least […]
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It is the gray-brown time of year again, the time of year when scraps of leftover snow cling in the corners of the yard, dirty and spent. When the sky is low and dark and the sun is hidden. When the air is not fit to breathe and I feel trapped, locked inside an inversion […]
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Here it is another Monday, another beginning and here I am again, fingers moving over the worn keys punching words into empty space, calling into shape the thoughts that slide over one another and some days laugh at the idea of being captured, tamed, written into being. There is something beautiful happening over here, at […]
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The days are short, night wrapping round to darken morning and dampen the hours of sunlight on snow. We are overloaded, full to bursting, struggling to find balance and order but it is an overload of love, and therefore a burden easier to carry. It seems to be a season of soft light, a season […]
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It is less than a week now, less than a week until we celebrate the day of Christ’s birth. Most of the “have-to’s” are finished, the week lies ahead of us like a blank canvas ready to fill. My heart, already, is full. Filled with awe at the beauty of all of this, filled to […]
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Sorry to have gone missing on you…what a whirlwind the last ten days have been! We were blessed to have my parents in, and spent the week enjoying life with them. The weeks around Thanksgiving bring three family birthdays, out of town guests, and often some frantic editing and photo work. It was amazing to […]
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Here in The City we live in our little house, surrounded by tall old trees and enclosed by as tall a privacy fence as we could legally build. When the gates are shut, we have our own private bit of country…fruit trees, pine trees, flowers everywhere. Our little bit of land is a throwback […]
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How the noise, the bustle, the busy gets in the way this time of year! November isn’t halfway over yet, and still I feel the press of the to do list, the encroaching panic as the calendar fills up one square at a time. How easy it is to forget, how easy to get […]
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There was something in the wind that whispered “Hurry…”. Leaves scuttled across pavement, scraping out the rustling sound of Autumn. Overhead, the sky was blue with small white clouds scudding by, looking like they were late for an appointment. Flocks of birds passed over, stopping here and there to rest on telephone wires…neat rows of […]
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431. Sisters in the leaves I can’t help but feel, though the calendar tells me otherwise, that November first is the first day of winter– the day that Autumn wraps up her golds and crimsons and graciously steps aside to give the season over to her frosty sister. Oh, the colors are still glowing on […]
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