have you heard?
I was jogging alone at one of my favorite local parks and saw from a short distance an older gentleman, someone familiar to me over the last couple of years, but whose name I never remember. What I do remember…
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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high fire danger
This past week I remembered a mental trick or visualization that has always helped me in moments of crisis. I had forgotten about it for a while because, well, it’s not much needed in smooth and easy times. I hope…
a butterfly on Christmas morning
On Christmas morning, we stood outside in tee shirts and bare feet, marveling at the unseasonably warm weather. Sun shone abundantly, and a vivid blue and black butterfly landed on the northeast corner of our house, warming itself on the…
friday 5 at the farm: missed photos
First, here are two snapshots of Scarletta Jones providing composting services as I cleaned out a space for planting green beans: And here are at least five photos I missed recently because I didn’t have my phone in my pocket:…
a dream and a prayer
I had the most wonderful dream about Jocelyn last night. Last night she came to me as a toddler, a baby really, those enormous dark brown eyes twinkling at me, her tiny pink mouth smirking and smiling. Her little body…
we’re not perfect, but do we deserve THIS?
As unsavory as this feels to write, it’s such a big headline in our lives that I can’t not write it. We are in a season of endurance again. More accurately, we are layering up more crises and more heartbreak…