“August has settled in like honey — sticky and sweet …Summer is fading into something more earnest.”
~ Kaetlyn Ann, “A Homesteader’s Diary”
Walking the pond banks, barefoot
Bullfrog
Saturday morning lightning storm, oatmeal, and wind
Escape Room
Houseful
Papa walking through the gate again
How God can use hula hoops and Zacchaeus skits to bring neighbors together; how he can also windstorms that twists the trees and send everyone running to the basement
Stomp rockets in the street
My accidental liturgy of cutting fresh marigolds for all the jars each Monday morning
A wedding so beautified by the gospel
Old friends and faces
Digging up carrots, mingled dirt and sweetness
New shirt with the labelled flowers on it
Taking Elsie, Huddy, and Bennett by the hands to visit Mrs. Brenda and give her bread
Elsie biting into an apple to make her tooth wiggle and fall out
Blueberries for Sal
Lavender coffee with Leanna and Natalie
Blanching tomatoes for salsa
Elsie carrying tomatoes back to the house in her prairie skirt
Reading bits of Bonhoeffer each day
End-of-summer chores and clean-outs and rehauls
When Elanor’s hair gets wet and curls
Papa Larry’s living room — books, glass bottles, plants, pictures of the family across generations, and touches of Nanny in the corners
Standing in the floodlight after dark, all of us, watching a spider weave her web
Slippin’ slide + dish soap + brothers
Long conversation with Elaina, white afternoon light, smoothie
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‘lavender coffee’ yes so good!! 💜
also ‘august has settled in like honey — sticky and sweet’
that’s such a beautiful way to put it. i feel that -both in the weather and the vibes – but don’t always see it in that positive a way. thanks for sharing 🍯🐝
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it was a first!
and i know what you mean. i’m beginning to see august/september as a sort of season in itself, a season of harvest and heat and preparation.
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