And a cold January it is. I have had a light case of the winter blues, augmented by almost zero time outdoors and my daughter’s toothache, which worries me. But the sun shines today. Maybe next week will be warmer. And by the way, for those who identify with seasonal affective disorder, I once wrote […]
End of August, there was a baptism. Blue skies in September. A family portrait against the windmill on top of the mountain. Harvest bounty. Not from my garden, which makes it easier. :) And a little boy who always wants to be involved. A Sunday evening with “Grandpa Bob” and “Grandma Ruth,” our adopted grandparents
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Is that what writing, really, does for a person? Stills the body, narrows the mind to a pinpoint or widens it to an ocean, quiets its restless, ceaseless, relentless motion. Forces coherence, a slowing of thought. I began a tanka challenge this month. I got the idea from Geneva Eby at One Brave Thing. “A
For over a month now, I’ve been writing down snippets of things I want to tell you, so this update will be random and long and interspersed with pictures of life here on the farm (that we no longer farm much, since Ivan is into storage buildings and we rent most of our farmland out).
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Which title is supposed to be a clever pun for my made-in-May update. I am sitting at the kitchen table to write this while the children take their afternoon naps. My hair is loose down my back–a pleasantly relaxed feeling for someone who usually wears it up. I am wrapped in two sweaters and a
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