Garden of Green Fables – Page 12

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

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August 30, 2022

The August Garden // A Happy Handful

There are a couple times a year that tend to be real time markers for me. The New Year/My Birthday (January 6) and August. August used to be a painful time marker, but then our son was born in the beginning of that month and my daughter has her own deep August story I shared… Continue reading

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August 1, 2022

Zinnias, August 1st, & a Folded Paper of Dreams

I scribbled out my dreams for the future. I wrote of children who would garden with me and complain about it, but I wouldn’t mind, because I would be just so happy they were there with me. A folded piece of paper stuck in a between the pages. Who knew if it would happen? Who… Continue reading

Garden of Green Fables, infertility, motherhood

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July 26, 2022

The Desert Sky, Flowers, and the 4th Trimester

I smile at Heidi who smiles at me with her whole face. I love how she talks with such gusto, concentration, and effort. I walk by the flower bed filled up with the wildflowers and zinnias we planted the weekend before her birth. Heidi is 3 months old now and it feels as though the… Continue reading

Garden of Green Fables, motherhood

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