Owlandtwine

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• Monday Morning

  

  Third time this morning I filled my small clay cup with thin drip coffee and milk; not my rich red-black espresso norm. Up off and on all night with the littles... Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2014 DIARIES, FAMILY

• (But It Was.)

  

  Hot spring mineral curly hair.I'm home and feel like I just came in from the wild for days and days. Although it wasn't quite like that. My authentic self, I ca... Read more

  Posted on 22 February 2014 DIARIES, FAMILY

• Whole

  

  I was driving Sully to school this morning. We were stopped at a red light. I looked in my rear view mirror and saw a woman driving a silver Prius behind us. Sh... Read more

  Posted on 07 February 2014 DIARIES, FAMILY

• Lull (in a Mostly Good Way)

  

  Last night a familiar feeling came. It inched its way inside and then I clearly saw it: Winter's pause. We are cold and needy deep in our bones for warmth and... Read more

  Posted on 01 February 2014 DIARIES, FAMILY

• Dream

  

  I had a dream last night about a pair of eagles. They were nesting in a tree next to our house. Vividly, I saw them flying, carrying bits and pieces of earth.... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2014 DIARIES, FAMILY

• For the Last Two Days, and All the Days

  

  My children were both sick with the stomach flu recently. First Sully got it, throwing up all throughout the middle of the night; linens circulating in the... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2014 DIARIES, FAMILY

• Pearl Hunting

  

  I am a girl made of warm white sand and shells. At a very young age, I understood that the moon and tide held power over my life. Read more

  Posted on 12 January 2014 DIARIES, FAMILY

• It's Sunday Morning...

  

  It's Sunday morning, snowing. My body has been sending me every sign that heavy cream, butter, wine sauces, meat, and sugar must cease and yet I retreat to my... Read more

  Posted on 05 January 2014 DIARIES, FAMILY

• Toasty

  

  Eleven days ago I shut my computer down with a giant exhale. One of the gifts I decided to give to myself this Christmas was a fast for my always hungry mind. Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2013 DIARIES, FAMILY

• Same Wind

  

  It's early afternoon and we're sitting at the dining room table. I'm staring off into the open space of the day while Sully draws himself with Spider Man... Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2013 DIARIES, FAMILY

• Best Gift Ever

  

  We are cloaked in the smell of gingerbread baking. It is 4F outside and inside the fireplace is hot and glowing. Out the window and across at the park, geese la... Read more

  Posted on 10 December 2013 DIARIES, FAMILY

• Inside My Heart

  

  We were on a plane last week. It was night and the cabin was dimmed, dark. I was sitting across the aisle from my family, an arm's length away. I was sitting... Read more

  Posted on 04 December 2013 DIARIES, FAMILY

• I Know Them

  

  They jump out of bed and fling the curtains open. Snow! It snowed! In ten seconds they will come running for our room, pull the covers from my face and declare... Read more

  Posted on 22 November 2013 DIARIES, FAMILY

• Link Love

  

  It's been so long since I did a list of links. I thought I'd pop in today and share some of my current favorite things.Pinterest is at the top of the list. I... Read more

  Posted on 18 November 2013 DIARIES, FAMILY

• This Is All I Need

  

  We're walking up a path, the mountains on our backs. Sully is on his bike, the only one of us with wheels in this moment. He stops abruptly and abandons his bik... Read more

  Posted on 15 November 2013 DIARIES, FAMILY

• Clarity and Goals and the Need for Quiet

  There has been nothing quiet about our daily life lately. We have been flying, Room on the Broom, style. Picking up this, picking up that; dropping this,... Read more

  Posted on 06 November 2013 DIARIES, FAMILY

• Porous Mother

  

  They have this way of reminding me that life is beautifully alive and flawed and well. Two times now since I've started typing this, Sully has tried to move... Read more

  Posted on 01 November 2013 DIARIES, FAMILY

• I Am A...

  

  I sit at my computer editing photos and look over to see him, only it's his hands I see and a Lego catalog covering most of his self. He studies. I am... Read more

  Posted on 25 October 2013 DIARIES, FAMILY

• I Was Thinking...

  

  For some reason today, I was thinking about a day a handful of years ago when I was chatting with a friend at work about her morning. Read more

  Posted on 23 October 2013 DIARIES

• I Grew A Person. And Then I Grew Another Person.

  

  It comes to me now in such unexpected ways, at unsuspecting times. Like just two days ago when I was standing at the kitchen sink washing dishes. Read more

  Posted on 18 October 2013 DIARIES, FAMILY