This has been a hard season for me.  I am so grateful for the chance to have another child, and I knew this summer would be different than last, but still.  My brain is still sometimes as driven as ever, not having fully accepted the present.  I used to say that corpse pose (the long ...
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(First, thank you for all your kind comments and wishes – if I were here more, I would say thank you individually, but for now – a big collective thank you and a hug!) Grandmothers, please come back.  I need you now that you are vanished. Please bring fried chicken and pickles, mashed potatoes with ...
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I know I wasn’t *here* for, you know, pretty much all of May, but I did take a few photos.  So here we go.

Today, the cat shearer paid a visit to our house. Cat shearer you ask? I’ll give you a hint – she just turned four. I was sitting in the living room, reading a book, Ben was on the phone with a neighbor, and I heard him pause and then say, “Um, sweetie? Please stop cutting ...
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Here in our little world it’s a time of heavy construction, both inside and out. The bakery got some lovely renovations this week (more customer space! Photos soon at the spiffy new Wheatberry site, I promise), that wall we knocked down finally got finished up with some gorgeous timber from our land, and the biggest ...
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This morning, the birthday girl looked like this.  She’s four! So naturally, she’s ready for bikinis, movies, and moving in with the nice family who lives down the street.  She thinks. It is, of course, incredibly hard to believe that this girl has been with us for four years – sweet, fierce, determined, and hilarious.  ...
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