a place to rest a minute and fill your soul with wild hope

“When the words mean more than the writer knew they meant, then the writer has been listening. And sometimes when we listen, we are led into places we do not expect, into adventures we do not always understand.”

— Madeleine L’Engle

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This beautiful book by Strahan @commoners_communion went straight from my mailbox to my purse so I could read it in every nook and cranny of my day until I could sit down after work and drink it up. If you’re thirsty for a gentler pace, a dee
She’s part her mama, part my mama, and all her own person. She is strong, tender and creative. There is no less is more. With her, more is more, and then some. You want her as your big sister and your teammate. Sweet Pea turned 9 yesterday, a
Pedestrian. Sidewalk. Down where the spiders walk and lost coins lay. On the floor with my Wonders. That’s where my attention has been drawn lately. And I’ll tell you, I’ve found cobwebs and broken hearts, yes, but also acorns, foun
I call him Ray for his mischevious smile and sunshiny disposition. He’s the one in the center with his shirt unbuttoned flying in the wind at Cannon Beach. A couple of years ago with a stone-serious face, he told me he saw a mongoose in my back
I’ve taken to sitting on my back porch as soon as the great horned owl hoots out my window. I can’t see her but I bet she’s a sad beauty with amber eyes. I grab my journal and a bowl of coffee and slowly wake up with my slice of the
“I just called to hear your voice.” That’s what I told my Sean who lives with his wife and 3 Wonders about 50 minutes from Winder, Georgia. We talked about childhood innocence and how no one gets to keep it even with locked classroo
10,000 smiles. That’s how many smiles may have passed between brilliant writer Brian Doyle and his sister. . He surprised me with how he thought of smiles as scars - good ones like laugh lines. Seems like the immeasurables, innumerables of bei