(THIS is the lovely view across the street from our house. Amazing.) When the day starts with your huggy-boy not willing to give you a hug. Then progresses to yelling and hitting. When you let them watch way more T.V. than they should and it only...
Photo Source A community is only being created when its members accept that they are not going to achieve great things, that they are not going to be heroes, but simply live each day with new hope, like children, in wonderment as the sun rises and in...
At the end of the day two cats sit in the window, sunset facing, while my husband walks the trash to the curb. Two fresh bodies are tucked into bed. Two still-dirty ones stretch the last minutes of daylight in the yard. There was some discussion this...
In the early morning darkness, I lay my head back on the couch, face lifted, chest wide, shoulders back. Open. Prayers rise, unbidden, as coffee cools in my cup. Decisions, relationships, lift like smoke, ascending from that tense place in my chest...
See the Mama wren? She’s fussing at me for being too close to her babies who’re tucked inside the bird house. Discarded shoes litter the grass around the pine tree; two bright blue Crocs, a pair of canvas sandals. When the kids are...
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