November came with the bursting of my son's flower. It was gifted to us when friends found out we were pregnant with our boy. It then had quite the story in the ground then trampled, then in a Lowe's paint bucket where it recovered, and then in the ground again where it has bloomed to… Continue reading Old Winter Prayer, God’s Blessing & the November Garden
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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 When Autumn Is Just a Moldy Pumpkin
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 Magic of California Autumn // The September Garden
When They Call You Pretty
It may sound a little crazy but it feels like there's this idea floating around that beauty = ugly, or beauty = bad, or even, beauty = a vain woman. But I disagree. Beauty may be vain in that it doesn't last and isn't the end-all/be-all, but a beautiful woman is not automatically vain (or… Continue reading When They Call You Pretty