writing
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Heartbeat – a poem for happy, sad expectant mothers
Last spring as oak leaves finally came in green I stared at them, blue sky between, felt sad about things outside my grasp, no control for what may happen next. But before the spring turned up sad I found out about you one Sunday afternoon. Tucked quiet, happy in my womb, I thought all that’s… Continue reading
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There Are Things I Wasn’t Prepared for When I Became a Mother
there are things I wasn’t prepared for when I became a mother. how four years later I’d feel sad for my son who loved a beetle-bug he kept in a small pumpkin house or crawling cheerfully on his dinosaur shirt. my son carried this bug so happily, so carefully, but the beetle-bug would fall on… Continue reading
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Fountain of Youth – a poem for turning 30
Earlier this month I turned 30. It was such a beautiful day filled with normal and special moments! My one plan to celebrate this milestone birthday was to put 30 actual candles on my cake. Getting all those birthday candles out and counted made me laugh aloud for the joy of it.🎂 I thank God… Continue reading
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Before I Turn 30 – some thoughts
I came home to my son standing soaked in the garden. The sprinklers shooting into the air and falling in that back and forth rhythm. His smile was wide. My husband was watering the sunflowers and soon my daugther, also soaked by garden sprinklers–our little water baby–would come to say hello. I’d hug my happy,… Continue reading
