Five Minute Friday: On Friendship

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On Fridays around here we stop, drop and write for five minutes straight. No editing, no back-tracking, no pauses. Just words. This week, let’s focus on friendship. Start: We sit curled up on the couch for not nearly enough hours talking kids, love, faith, family and words. So many words. Between us we’ve got so [...]

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Five Minute Friday: And then some

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I haven’t written anything in a week. Not even five minutes worth. I’ve felt empty of words. Full of baby. Full of noise and chaos and worry and kids who launch themselves out of bunk beds with no heed for their physical safety or my mental well being.  Full of to-do lists that wrap themselves [...]

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Five Minute Friday: The Mail

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Stop, drop, and write. That’s what we do for five minutes here on Fridays. No tweaking, no back-tracking, no self-editing. Just words. Lots of lovely words for a full five minutes. This week the prompt is:What’s the best mail you got recently – email, text, or snail mail? GO: They’re always writing to me. Sometimes [...]

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Where do you write?

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I carve out space to write in between toy boxes and Buzz Lightyear. Some days I trip over lego masterpieces and get tangled up in home-made dog leashes for the dog my youngest son hopes we will one day have. I write between the elephant mobile my mom’s youngest sister brought back from India and [...]

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You are the nougat in the chocolate of my day

December 17, 2010

Reading all your posts yesterday? Made me feel like this. And reminded me of the amazing, basic truth that we are all members of one body, connected, family. And made me want to give every single one of you DaySpring’s God’s Heart for You necklace – except for the brave dudes who linked up, because [...]

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The post you wish more people had read

December 16, 2010

I heard you yesterday. I heard how you ache at the not knowing if sharing your stories matters. Or worse yet, the wondering if it was worth sharing if no one shows up to read. It made me think. What if we took a day. One day. And sat around together, slumped over sofas, feet [...]

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The Christmas presents no store can sell me include…

December 3, 2010

the sight of my two boys unwrapping gifts alongside their adopted brothers and cousins. a healthy, growing baby girl due to arrive safe and sound in March 2011. the smell of the jasmine blooming in my dad’s garden in South Africa right now. a heart chock-full of friendship. an empty laundry hamper. OK, your turn. [...]

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A time to weep and a time to dance

November 12, 2010

Some days when I see ugly in the world I want to counter it with beauty. I want to bury my head in piles of autumn leaves and just bathe in what’s left of the sunshine. I want to curl up in our king size bed between two softly snoring boys and let their peace [...]

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When our words and arms are finally in the same place

October 21, 2010

I wait up for two friends. The kids give up waiting and go to bed. I light candles and wash the last of the macaroni and cheese pots; wipe down the counters and put away the Barney DVD all covered in tiny fingerprint smudges. I listen to music on my pink phone and remember a [...]

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Some favorites from this week were…

August 13, 2010

Z Pizza – kicking it with the Hawaiian toppings. The book Too Small To Ignore by Wess Stafford, President of Compassion International (disclaimer: only read if wearing waterproof mascara). JJ Heller’s soul-catching song, Your Hands. The smell of Elizabeth Anne’s baby lotion (care-packaged from South Africa – thank you Boo!) A birthday bash of epic proportions. Email exchanges [...]

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