Carpeing all the diems in semi-rural Oklahoma...xoxo
Carpeing all the diems in semi-rural Oklahoma...xoxo
What a week! What a luscious, productive, happy week. And we still have the entire weekend to enjoy and maximize. Our weather here in Oklahoma has been unseasonably mild, so I was able to dive headlong into gardening tasks without…
Hello, happy August! Our monthly threshold was made rich and beautiful from heavy doses of quality time, both with a few special loved ones and with each other. For these well spent hours I am deeply grateful. Now we are…
“It is the soul’s duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.” -Rebecca West This past week was the first time in many years, outside of a few occassions of convalescence, that…
“The good news is that the heat seems to be exhausting our five million grasshoppers. Wait, let me back up…” I was around nine years old, barefoot and in the middle branches of Mom’s mulberry tree, right there on the…
Today is our nineteenth wedding anniversary!! When I reflect on the last nineteen years, my heart feels overwhelming gratitude that so much of our marriage has burned brightly with real and true passion, with romance that’s more than an undercurrent;…
Another overnight storm, what? We did not see that one coming. The boys had been up for about an hour when I awoke to a wall-rattling chorus of rolling thunder. I rubbed open my eyes and was greeted by an…