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Continue reading →: 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…
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Continue reading →: 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…
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Continue reading →: 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…
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Continue reading →: 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…




