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Wherever there is stillness there is the still small voice, God’s speaking from the whirlwind, nature’s old song and dance . . . – Annie Dillard, Teaching a Stone to Speak Five months pregnant with twins, I waddled up a narrow, rocky path. I was...
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(The morning view from the porch at God’s Whisper Farm) Remember a few weeks back when I wrote about Cutting Loose at a friend’s farm while enjoying a weekend long writing retreat? This week I’m honored to host the farm’s...
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These are the blossoms for the Dragon’s Tongue beans. Photo Source And for all this, nature is never spent; there lives the dearest freshness deep down things . . . – Gerard Manly Hopkins Bean plants grow low and lazy, leaning. Standing...
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We’re officially on vacation this week in sunny Florida. We drove down Saturday in one long haul. Our kids did amazingly well and my husband drove for long stretches like a champ. I kept myself awake, driving while he slept, by carving baby...
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I have my own picture window now, complete with bird feeder. Grandma fed her chickadees religiously, for years. Filling a rusted coffee can with sunflower seeds, she loaded the feeder outside her big picture window, daily. Seated...