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The healing carrot

Last night I was sitting with my friends in the coffee shop like we always do on Sunday evenings. The remains of the potluck dinner stacked up in front of…

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July 7, 2025
children, learning, theo

Theo’s Story

**Theo started building this fort in the spring and worked on it all summer.  He will be taking it down in the next few days so he wrote a story…

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September 19, 2017
poetry

The Last Night

On an almost full moon nightI call for the dog but do not find her.The deck beckons me andI step past the maple to look at the moonlightDrenching the fields…

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June 5, 2023
  • birth

    The Wonderful Birthing of Oz

    Melissa / March 28, 2025 / 8 Comments

    You would think I would have this whole going in labor thing down pat by now, but when I felt a gush of liquid around 4 am on Friday morning I was certain…

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  • life

    The Good from Today

    Melissa / February 12, 2025 / 0 Comments

    This week I’ve shaken off some of the winter and post sickness lethargy I have been feeling. I’ve given myself a lot of excuses over the past few weeks to not do as…

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  • Best of,  life,  photos

    The best of 2024

    Melissa / December 30, 2024 / 2 Comments

    I normally enjoy reminiscing through my photos at the end of December but I found them a disorganized mess this year. Many were unedited and in the wrong folders and my computer has…

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  • contentedness,  life

    Laying down

    Melissa / December 11, 2024 / 0 Comments

    A few years ago some words that a family member had spoken were passed along to me. They were something along the lines of supposing that I must be miserable because I stay…

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  • birth

    A poem for New Life

    Melissa / October 21, 2024 / 0 Comments

    Do the angels rejoice at conception? Does heaven sing glory to the beginning of life? Rejoice! Rejoice! For a new child is formed. Every one so completely different, yet of the same flesh.…

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  • gardens,  homestead,  learning,  life

    Seeds of seeds

    Melissa / September 11, 2024 / 0 Comments

    I believe that the seeds of homesteading are first planted when one realizes just how messed up our food system is. I recall being newly married in a small urban apartment checking the…

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  • life

    Summer so far // Summer, so far

    Melissa / July 8, 2024 / 0 Comments

    This is the first Monday back to normal after Brad’s two week summer “break”. I can look back and see a few fun trips and a lot of normal days just spent together.…

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  • life,  Pauquette Prose

    A Heavenly Aching

    Melissa / May 22, 2024 / 0 Comments

    I realized that while I have a lot of favorite times of year, mid May is absolutely near (or maybe even at) the top. Everything is so green right now.  The spring flowers…

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  • learning,  life

    Soul Watering

    Melissa / February 27, 2024 / 2 Comments

    I had some extra time to tidy up before dinner today and noticed my plants. My first thought was that I should water them, but then quickly changed it to “Nah, it hasn’t…

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  • life

    Guilty

    Melissa / February 23, 2024 / 0 Comments

    For a couple of days the girls have been asking to crochet. I don’t actually know how to crochet but Ira taught himself last year so I guess they assume I know how…

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