Dear readers, I’d like to hear what you think of the format for this month’s update. My four headers were repurposed from that well-known wedding jingle: “Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue.” Let me know if this is a format you like and would enjoy seeing me continue. Since about half of my […]
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I named this post “moments like bunny rabbits” simply because the photo above is my favorite of all the photos I’ve taken this month. And because moments really are like bunny rabbits–small, quivering when you hold them, prone to hop away rather quickly. And a farmer’s hands holding a bunny rabbit is maybe my favorite
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It’s been almost two months since I shared an update, and I feel like a lot has happened! We took a trip to Iowa to see our dear Grandma Dorothy: Every time we see her, it seems she is a little further into that aging place where one grows ever more detached from life and
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One of the people I most admire–a writing mentor about the age of my parents–recently lost her strong young-man son. My heart goes out to her. Life is so full of surprises. Not all of them are bad. But some of them are very hard indeed. “Hold your life with an open hand,” a beautiful
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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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