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Happy bloggy anniversary to us
On October 3, 2011, I told my first story here. A story of fear. A story of finding perspective. A simple story of childhood and discovering the artist in me. My feet are firmly on this path now. With...
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Five Minute Friday: Welcome
It’s Friday, and I’m meeting up with the community of Five Minute Friday at Lisa-Jo Baker’s Tales from a Gypsy Mama for some free writing. Here are the rules: follow the prompt, no extreme editing,...
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The Chain: Guest Posting at Amber Haines’ The Runamuck
She connects little daisies one to another, and it is magic to see how she links them — pushes her thumb nail through the bottom of a stem, runs another flower through. She laces while the sky falls...
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Packing potatoes
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Moments of silence
Several weeks ago a dear friend invited me to participate in an evening of silence. I figured I would need such a night in the midst of Christmas season busy-ness. It would be good to take a break and...
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Five Minute Friday: Cherished
She stepped a foot down the aisle, vintage lace and strands of champagne pearls, her boys holding her hands on either side, and she was in every way what they call a vision. Of beauty, joy, warmth....
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The scale that measures rightly
I don’t want to know what I weigh so much as what I weigh in comparison to you. Not on the bathroom scale with the hand jumping from zero, though sometimes I think about that too. More, I wonder how I...
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How a woman is like a rock
In the house of a girl who loves them, this one stands apart. She’s got ceramic dishes, jars and Tupperware full of rocks and stones (though she’d need to Google to know the difference between the...
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On being boxed in
For the last weeks, Sici’s collected boxes. One fits inside another inside another. She will wrap them in different papers, and her friends will unwrap one at a time, passing the square around the...
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I believe
I believe in grace and second chances, the power of sunshine sketches, and I love you with a full heart etched across a napkin and folded into a lunch box between the apples and carrots. I believe in...
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This circle
This circle is bigger than the circumference of these shoulders touching, these fingers scratching backs, these glasses of wine and red vines and smiles thrown from one side of the room to the other....
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Stomping on ideal
I still remember sitting in her living room, holding my squirmy two-year-old girl on my lap. My friend spoke about comparisons and how she’d been tearing herself apart with them for years. I leaned...
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Words and really random words and the power of encouragement
Hello there. I’m popping in tonight with a highly unusual Sunday evening post. I hope you enjoyed your weekend. Yesterday, Portland’s skies shined bright, blue and beautiful. It was a most wonderful...
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Permission to dream
Do you feel it rattling, stirring, thumping? Do you recognize it calling from the deep, across the din, through the echoes of these ordinary days? Do you watch as it runs across the hills and soars...
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Five Minute Friday: Friend
Alex and I at the Denver Airport She and I walked around the room at this holy reunion, and I hugged long and hard those I’d never met, but already knew. I squeezed them like I’d been waiting my whole...
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Drinking from the cup
Finger wrapped steam curls toward wood beams, this holy morning fragrance mingled with words and some tears and knit brows and shoulder shaking gold Lives, lots, portions in earthen containers and...
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Five Minute Friday: View
I know that someday I will look over these years of child raising and adult growing and see the quilt of who we’ve all become. The this that lead to that. The intense dark pattern alongside the breezy...
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Five Minute Friday: Lonely
I wrestled my way free from loneliness over and over again. It was a clawing kind of fight. My desperation not to feel alone that stuffed and filled the empty folds of life with people and activities...
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On Trayvon Martin: a month later
during days after the jury reads its words, i am struggling for time to write my own, and this boy – he follows me i think every day about the black teenager and ticker tape along the screen’s bottom...
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Light in the Hidden Place – Guest Post at SheLoves Magazine
From the time I first read SheLoves Magazine, I whispered thank you and held the prayer that one day my words would find their way to that lovely place of sisterhood and hope. This morning I am...
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