Sierra V. Fedorko

November 1, 2022

6 Months Postpartum, Awkward Armfuls & the October Garden

I sat in the garden a few weeks postpartum and felt the breeze. Holding my daughter close to my chest wrapped warm in her colorful quilt. My son played. I smiled. Even laughed. There was a lifting here. Happiness I could feel. The early postpartum fog rose half an inch. I’m in the garden 6… Continue reading

Garden of Green Fables

garden, garden journal, hope, hope grows, motherhood, The Celebrating Soul
October 27, 2022

When Autumn Is Just a Moldy Pumpkin

Upon choosing a title for the email I send every Monday, I picked “It’s Okay If It Stinks.” So sophisticated, I know. While I’ve been basking in the autumn season and all the fall things, the photo below popped up on my memories last week, and regardless of it popping up, I think about it often… Continue reading

infertility

celebrate life, choose life, hope, life
September 29, 2022

Magic of California Autumn // The September Garden

It’s eating fresh-picked, late-summer blackberries on the first day it feels like autumn is in the air. It’s how you are soaking in the last vestiges of summer but enraptured by every gust of wind making a leaf flurry center stage. And you just there in the front seat. It’s the first day you’re outside… Continue reading

Garden of Green Fables

choose life, garden, garden journaling, gardener, hope, small gardens, The Celebrating Soul
September 15, 2022

Limping Wings// A Poem for Staying in Your Life

I had no idea I’d get a rose this big when my little garden began alongside my limping heart on Mother’s Day 2018. It just took about four years to bloom this big, but less than that for me to lift my head and love the life I had. My encouragement to you is STAY.… Continue reading

Poetry

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6 Months Postpartum, Awkward Armfuls & the October Garden

When Autumn Is Just a Moldy Pumpkin

Magic of California Autumn // The September Garden

Limping Wings// A Poem for Staying in Your Life