by Andi | Feb 6, 2015 | Book Recommendations
This week, I seem to have picked up a series of books that are quite challenging for me in a number of ways. When I come to a book like this, I read more slowly, turn to the pages less urgently than I might if I was reading something easier. So I’ve read less... by Andi | Feb 5, 2015 | Andi's Book, God's Whisper, Written and Wrought
The other night, I went down into the basement to feed Jelly Roll and Sabeen, our mousers, and I stood at the bottom of the stairs. Around me, 200-year-old stones sighed out their musty, cool breath. I could almost hear them. This space was the winter kitchen, the... by Andi | Feb 4, 2015 | God's Whisper, Written and Wrought
The journey you must take to reach for the stars must begin from within. – Anne B. Weil A simple life. Days filled with tasks. Tasks, small powerful achievements. The kitchen counter cleaned. The dishwasher unloaded. Two hundred x’s on a cross-stitch... 
by Andi | Feb 3, 2015 | Book Recommendations, Written and Wrought
I think it’s the only way we know how to be vulnerable; to do it sideways. — Nadia Bolz-Weber I don’t know if it’s a winter without snow, a new (old) farmhouse without many window on its front, or just the kind of malaise that settles in when... by Andi | Feb 2, 2015 | Written and Wrought
As a kid, I used to dip my fingers in the nearly-burning wax of just extinguished candles and let it dry. Then, I’d peel my fingertips away and study the whorls and spins of my identity mirrored there. I could do this for hours, lighting and then blowing out...