Garden Lullaby
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Before I Turn 30 – some thoughts
I came home to my son standing soaked in the garden. The sprinklers shooting into the air and falling in that back and forth rhythm. His smile was wide. My husband was watering the sunflowers and soon my daugther, also soaked by garden sprinklers–our little water baby–would come to say hello. I’d hug my happy,… Continue reading
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Little Boy Came When the Sunflowers Bloomed
Every day past my due date felt so long. But he came as babies do…in his own time. Laughter punctuates his birth story and it’s this time of year especially that thrills my mother’s heart. Four years ago I became a mom and felt the joy of it in those late nights nursing my son.… Continue reading
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Beneath Brokenness and Blessing…
The September Garden, 2023 Surely the garden is lovely in spring when the world of it wakes up so softly…a bursting out of winter. I love to see it. Surely the garden’s eyes are fully awake in the thick of summer. Heavy with bloom. Heavy with fruit. Heavy with light. I cannot deny the breadth… Continue reading
