Wisdom says I am nothing; love says I am everything; between the two, life moves.
Sri Nisagardatta Maharaj
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One Community is a monthly photo project in which participants photograph their homes and community with a theme in mind. The theme varies by month. The goal is to both showcase similarities and differences in our communities worldwide – and bring us all closer together in understanding through art.
Kelli lives in New Jersey with her dog, Willie Nelson Mandela, and her boyfriend, Dutch. A native Arizonan, she is enamored by the lush landscape, and looking to build community. She is a novelist, public health advocate and United Methodist. She blogs at African Kelli.
Sarah is a life-long Missourian who shares her home with her husband, one (soon to be two) son(s), and an old, grumpy dachsund. Like every good Midwesterner, she can (and will) talk to you at length about the weather. Sarah blogs at Beauty School Dropout.
Rebekah lives in Kilkenny, Ireland with her husband. An American by birth, she’s discovering what it means to be an expat on the Emerald Isle. Her blog is Honeysuckle Life.
Kara is a cheerful nerd living in downtown Phoenix, AZ with her law-studying husband and an anxious pound puppy. She works full time in the mental health field but in her off time enjoys sunshine, great food and the occasional craft beer. She blogs at Sunshine Cupcakes.
Stephanie is a lifelong Wyomingite with ranch girl roots. She has her own marketing and graphic design business, and in her free time, she enjoys knitting, fishing with her boyfriend, and team roping. Her blog is Now I Can See the Moon.
Eduarda Schroeder is a curious, visual creature who believes all pictures tell a story. She hails from Mozambique, via Portugal and New Jersey, and is now a desert rat living with her husband and two teenage daughters in Chandler, Arizona. Her blog is Midnight Train.
Wife and Mom to a houseful of boys in sunny San Diego; word geek and all-kinds-of writer; maker of things both creative and useful. Sue is now blogging again at no-bad-days.
Teresa lives in Massachusetts with her husband, college aged daughter and two crazy cats. She is a creative spirit who tries to find the lesson, blessing and humor in everything and she blogs at Laughter Among Tears.
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Hello sunshine! Hello dear readers! I am celebrating two weekends worth of digging, mulching, squatting, and shoveling with photos.
The little sprouts are peas. The big leaves are rhubarb. Cross your fingers that the slugs don’t devour them all!
A brave gnome protects the boysenberries. The mulched area in the foreground is our new blueberry patch.
The herb garden and cherry tree.
The flower garden, with one fat squirrel going to town on bird seed. Everyone needs to eat!
The new strawberry patch. There’s a terracotta hedgehog, too.
From the gate.
Red roof with scrub jay and our apple tree in full boom.
The Indian plum hedge is slowly looking like one!
Woodland path with pink azalea.
Last weekend’s labor – mulch, mulch, mulch!
Dogwood and tulip blooming.
Happy Earth Day!
Tags: Gardening + Nature
Happy Birthday, Daddy! You’re a Beatles song now.
XOXO
My words are off somewhere, a bear, hibernating in a cave, or, perhaps, a chickadee, chirruping around the neighborhood, collecting a single morsel at a time. She zooms hither and thither from her cache, a wild, blank canvas that will reveal a marvelous pattern in its own time, not a moment sooner.
In the meantime, I decorate, gathering wind fallen branches, unpacking well-loved treasures, and lighting candles by the score. I knit, needles steadily clicking at scarves and snoods and soon to be hats and hand warmers. Then there are the hours upon hours spent in the craft room, cutting, arranging, and sewing fabric into quilts. Honest. Meditative. Sweet.
I hope that you are well and that your heart is made lighter by all that is good in the world. The light of your love. The voice of a friend. The warmth of an embrace. The things that truly matter.
