Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas. They are the symbols of a beginning. -Anselm Kiefer ...

You mustn't live so lightly. Spin your stories, tale your tales, Let them dance across the oceans And set the wind upon you...

Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed,  yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken  nor my covenant of peace b...

The great thing about getting older Is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been. -Madeleine L'Engle I had a...

See the land, her Easter keeping, Rises as her Maker rose. Seeds, so long in darkness sleeping, Burst at last from winter snows. Earth ...

From His fullness we have all received grace upon grace . -John 1:16 Haven't we? I mean, absolutely: life is tough now. Sin, si...

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. Read more at: http://www.brainyq...

A corner of Hedge House that I need to tackle this weekend. Hey: Better. Every. Day.  Thank you all again, so much, for keeping the beau...

Thank you- each of you- for your kind comments yesterday. I read every one and every word, whether you commented or emailed or Facebook m...

So maybe, like me, you're dreaming of a place in the country where you can stretch out and have a flower garden, a mini milk cow , a...

I've just finished coating two hives worth of top bars with beeswax in anticipation of splitting a hive this afternoon. It's incre...

Oh friends. I have so much to tell you and so much to write down now that I'm back from my time at the Fair and visiting loved ones. S...

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true,  do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we k...

It's actually Oxalis, but we always just called it clover growing up. It's blooming now, here in the piney woods of east Texas. ...

Tuesday came knocking this morning, dragging a brilliant sun and a biting chill in behind her. I'm happy to see that blue sky, though, a...

And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us:  and establish thou the work of our hands... -Psalm 90:17 He is a beautiful, bea...

There's something about these winter months that draw me inside and inward, I think, wanting stretches of quiet and solitude and time to...

The meaning of life. The wasted years of life. The poor choices of life.    God answers the mess of life with one word: 'grace.' ...

  When you buy something made by a person, there is something special there, and you do feel it. The consciousness with which a thing i...

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into. -Henry Ward Beecher  We had to chase the Master Garde...