Tuesday {in pictures}

Hello friends. I’m finding this so restful: to notice the small things of daily life and to share them here with you. We’ve been keeping a jar of markers and fresh paper at hand for quiet times, and today had many moments where the boys just sat and colored. I love the way Sprout is [...]

Sunday in pictures

A few glimpses at our Sunday. How was yours?

These are some moments: full velocity, full of mess, full of grace

It’s been a wild tumble of spring-turning-into-summer around here. I’m in the thick of a full, full summer semester. The deadline for my manuscript is looming in early fall. Everything is converging in a miraculous, glorious mess. There isn’t enough time. I’m exploding with ideas. The Kickstarter rewards are still waiting for finishing touches that [...]

certain things keep on in their own fashion without us

I don’t know how to reclaim any kind of balance now and so this is what I do instead: I list the day, one thing after the next. The white herons, a pair, that fly overhead as I drive on a flood closed road, water licking at the front door of a white house the [...]

These are things that happen

These are things that happen when I circle back into this present that is mine: sunburn on unaccustomed cheeks; blisters on my palms after an afternoon in leather gloves raking lawn debris; the unexpected delirium of forsythia and daffodils; bumblebees; wet marks on my knees from kneeling to look among the clover. I cannot help [...]