The March Garden // 2023 March is the month I just have to hold on. By this time the garden is still pretty ugly, although by the end of the month it gets to being gangly. Gangly is different than ugly. With gangly there are palpable ends of hope and awkward bursts of something though… Continue reading Hope Is a Gangly Thing (the garden, the bridge, the baby quilt🌼)
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To Bloom in Winter
The January Garden // 2023 Truth be told I have not spent very much of January in the garden. I've caught snippets of sunshine, taken snapshots here and there, but I've been indoors most of all. Cat is either not too thrilled with winter or telling me to put the phone down already and pet… Continue reading To Bloom in Winter
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
How Thoroughly God Gives Life!
In 2020, while a child grew in me, I returned to the thing I had loved to do as a child. Writing poetry. And I wrote the years down. Infertility. My silent screaming. God's history of love to me. My grief. The garden. The starkness of the bathroom floor. The healing. The escape from the… Continue reading How Thoroughly God Gives Life!
Sierra V. Fedorko 