Tag: family life
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A Prayer for Right-Seeing
There are times it requires the entire will, every muscle fiber, each heart-string, to see those squashed banana pieces as jewels, the bread crumbs as confetti, the demands as opportunities for love. There are times I feel the heart reaching, insisting, pulling on the harness of right-seeing, yoking these phyical moments to the ever-lasting instant.…
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Turning
Spaghetti squash lies in the October garden beneath butter-yellow flowering broccoli. Bees still visit, bright-stripped and fuzzy, while cabbage white butterflies float over stem and stalk. The earth waits to be turned, the garlic cloves to be buried, the leaves to be gathered, scattered and spread. Our unpruned forsythia holds a bough of apple-red leaves…
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An Ode on the Eve of Our Anniversary
Today’s clouds sit in the sky, scoops of ice cream on glass tables. On a tiny mountain top we let our feast rest warm in our bellies, watch our kids run wild through the prairie grass. The trees’ journey toward winter deepens, leaves like flames flare along the horizon, flash out of the dense green…
Amy Secrist 