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Continue reading →: Motherhood Is Like July & August
The July Garden, 2023 In the same month, the sunflowers began blooming and the “firework” flower showed its face, we also had a rattlesnake slithering near our front door and another one coiled and rattling loudly in the flowerbed. While Heidi’s rose grows tall in a way it never has…
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Continue reading →: What Does Love Feel Like?
When the question was posed, “What does love feel like?”—all I could think was it feels like seeing a cool bird and wanting to tell him about it. A few weeks later, I would listen to my son sing his own original song, Honeybird. I made up a few verses…
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Continue reading →: Old Wise Woman’s Tale
Back in 2020 when the world was falling apart, I gave birth to my son. He was due late July, but he came early August. He was born into a hospital room highlighted with laughter. It didn’t matter what blanketed the world, we were laughing, and he was beautiful, and…
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Continue reading →: Safe to Fall in Love Here
I moved the bright, blue melemine bowl filled with strawberries from sink to counter. In this simple moment I felt myself really falling in love with summer. I never knew I’d be so enchanted with what has often been my least-favorite season. But whether I’m filling a basket with cut…
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I’m Sierra
Welcome to my cottage garden in the foothills of California! I’m a poet, gardener, and sunflower enthusiast. Follow for personal poetry and prose rooted in my Christian faith and inspired by the turn of seasons both out of doors and in the soul. Find my short stories on Substack – Green Fables.♥️
Sierra V. Fedorko 