"We do not have to become extraordinary to be joyous." ~ Bethany Rose, Farm, Heart, Pen Newsletter These are the things that made me joyous in September: September marigolds A sweltering Monday, when the kids played hide and seek in the basement and we ate spaghetti under a storm warning Tree Climbing Lessons with Huddy … Continue reading Marigolds & Leaf Boats
“The hardest thing of all to see is what is really there.” ~ J.A. Baker These are the things that made me happy in August: Biking to the firehouse to vote In a garden that the deer ate up and the heat left haggard: coneflowers Sunday afternoon in August, watching the dragonflies Cardinals game with … Continue reading Mushrooms, Pears, & Rain in August
“I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.” ~ John Muir VBS -- A week for kids and circle dances and costumes and learning Hebrew and talking about Jesus when we walked by the way and when we jumped … Continue reading july ttmmh
"{In} grace... still my sighs and fill my mouth with song, then give me summer weather as a Christian." ~ The Valley of Vision, "Purification" Lemonade made with strawberries from the patch Drive to town with Trent, listening to Jamie Drake's new album Sweeping to The Sing Team Running a letter to the mailbox in … Continue reading june ttmmh
"I promise that I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to... a land flowing with milk and honey." ~ Exodus 3:17 A Saturday for the kids -- on the floor, in highchairs, playing in the rock bed, eating brownies and reading Beatrix Potter stories on the back patio Playing violin barefoot … Continue reading may ttmmh
"For behold, the winter is past; the rain is over and gone. The flowers appear on the earth, the time of singing has come..." ~ Song of Solomon 2:11-12 Gardening and yoga Papa Jay trying to describe the forsythia by the bridge: "Like the sun just sitting there" Tuesday morning rain and writing Painting "Starry … Continue reading april ttmmh
"No matter what changes take place in the world, or in me, nothing ever seems to disturb the face of spring." ~ Essays of E.B. White Bookstores and kombucha on my twenty-first birthday Seventy degrees on March 1, driving home barefoot Friends who birthday-surprised me with tea and brunch and a book-themed escape room and … Continue reading march ttmmh
"I’m sitting here in Februaryand asking you to please tell me againwhy all the poems are about spring." ~ E.M.H. Morning skate, then oatmeal Winter storm on Wednesday, when the boys stayed home from work and Leanna, Barrett, and Papa Larry spent the night, and we ate pot pie and watched it swirl down off … Continue reading february ttmmh
"He gives snow like wool; he scatters frost like ashes. He hurls down his crystals of ice like crumbs; who can stand before his cold? He sends out his word, and melts them; he makes his wind blow and the waters flow." ~ Psalm 147:16-18 New Year's Day at Papa and Mema's--- Wahoo on the … Continue reading january ttmmh
"I looked across at the farmer and his wife who were sitting in upright kitchen chairs watching me with quiet benevolence. The two faces had something in common--- a kind of beauty. You would find faces like that only in the country; deeply wrinkled and weathered, clear-eyed, alight with cheerful serenity. "I raised my glass. … Continue reading december ttmmh
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