a harrowing week
Last Monday, late morning, I was in line at the grocery store when our neighbor Lisa texted me. She was just celebrating the beautiful sound of our new cows mooing. We chatted briefly about planning a visit for her granddaughter…
Lazy W Marie
Carpeing all the diems in semi-rural Oklahoma...xoxo
Lazy W Marie
Carpeing all the diems in semi-rural Oklahoma...xoxo
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fifty years xoxoxo
Tomorrow my parents reach their Golden Anniversary. What a milestone! What an increasingly rare and beautiful thing. Every year, it seems our age difference, already relatively small, shrinks a little more. Their nearness both to retirement and now this incredible…
friday 5 at the farm, oct 20, 2023
Hooowwwww is it already Friday again? This week has been another one packed with joys, both big and small, just shouldered and layered together like sardines in a too small can, and I love it. But I am stunned by…
early october senses inventory
See: Sunlight streaming in and bouncing cheerfully off of several small disco balls, now their fuzzy reflections wiggling around the room as if they are living creatures. Halloween decorations in front of me on the dining room table and above…
an autumn afternoon in the garden with Kindergarten
We sat in the shade with half a dozen bright eyed Kindergarteners, just three women and six children that day. The October afternoon was warm and breezy, still more summer than fall, and I found myself wishing I had brought…