To Every Thing…
I love the seasons. It is hard for me to pick a favorite. Maybe because I tend to be a positive person or maybe because I am so indecisive, but I just really love the good things about each season, Read More
The Communityless
I think I’ve mentioned in other blog posts that I grew up in a small town. The population was around 3,000 and there were no other bigger towns close by. We actually had to cross state lines and drive 30 Read More
Reach Out and Touch Someone
Touch and quality time are, without a doubt, my top two love languages. I watch my kids, and especially my son, who still haven’t learned certain social norms around touch and affection, just cling to people, jumping on them, hugging Read More
Open Hands
As I reflected on this past year, thinking about any particular themes that were most apparent, one lesson stood out among the rest. Surrender. The image of having open hands came to my mind. Building a house and fostering our Read More
Wide Open Spaces
“She needs wide open spaces, room to make her big mistakes,” I would belt out along with The Chicks in my late teen/early twenties. In nature, I still need those wide open spaces- looking up at the stars, gazing at Read More
How It’s Going
I woke up with the phrase, “nature abhors a vacuum,” in my head. It felt like the kind of thought that usually only comes to me when I go on a walk or have some moment of free thought and Read More
Fly High Little Birds
Last summer a mama bird made her nest in our apple tree and we got to watch as the fledglings left the nest. It coincided with the time that our first foster baby was leaving our nest. This year we Read More
Sprinkling Wildflower Seeds
January and February are usually long months for me. While I truly love all 4 seasons and love living in a place that experiences all 4 seasons to the fullest, by the time February comes around I’m sick to death Read More
We All Need Each Other
I recently watched two very different movies that both reminded me of how much we all need community. “A Man Called Otto” is about a suicidal widower whose life is ultimately saved by neighbors being neighborly, but not in the Read More