river not reservoir
Will you follow me on a short, meandering train of thought? This all occurred to me simultaneously, early this morning. Are you, like me, a borderline obsessive list maker and goal tender? I keep a planner and myriad lists and…
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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cultivating hope & beauty, mari’s pandemic story
In early February, 2020, Mari was planning a 50th birthday party for her husband Tony. Though well plugged into the news, they didn’t yet feel that the new flu-like virus was anything to worry about here in Oklahoma. “There had…
a close call with Dusty and a story about the leaf blower guy
The other day we had a scare with one of our horses, Dusty, the squatty, deep voiced grey and white cutie pie who has grown up with our girls. He is fine now, everything turned out great, but it was…
the thank you habit that helps me
For the past several days I have been employing an old standby habit, something that felt awkward at first but then got me through a crisis when my girls were toddlers, and these recent days it has felt luscious. I…
and just like that…
Just now while doing breakfast chores, I was praying for Jocelyn and something wonderful happened. For several days I have been aggressively and tediously flaking hay for the bachelors from what is perhaps the most tightly wound large bale I…
let them kick their own shells apart & the pink neon sign
Oooff, here we go. Maybe you have heard rumors about the girls, about the family, about what has been happening. Maybe you hold enough insight to understand how to pray, or enough peripheral knowledge over the past two decades to…