by Andi | Aug 8, 2013 | Uncategorized
For a few weeks during my senior year of college, I stayed up later than my studies required to do two things – write in my purple, spiral-bound journal every day and to read a chapter of Margaret Atwood’s Cat’s Eye. The first practice was prompted... by Andi | Aug 7, 2013 | Uncategorized
Philip and I are terrible at buying gifts and then waiting to give them. We just get too excited. Two weeks ago, I told him about the wedding sampler I was stitching as his wedding gift. Today, he came in with a pair of Forgiveness Goblets for his gift to me. A... by Andi | Aug 6, 2013 | Garden, Uncategorized
One bed. Of the three, just one. That was my task – to weed that one bed. I started with the easiest – a third full of gourds just now going green, climbing the fence, threatening to make it to the chicken coop by the time their stems dry in September’s last warm... by Andi | Aug 5, 2013 | Uncategorized
Cleaning refrigerators and toilets helps you connect the food cycle at both ends. Making beds reminds you that life-giving activities do not require much space. Hanging laundry on the line offers you a chance to fly prayer flags disguised as bath towels and underwear.... by Andi | Aug 1, 2013 | Uncategorized
Work the words. Work the words when your heart is heavy, when your skin crawls with sorrow, and when your fingers ache with bone crushing anger. Work the words when you have nothing but weight and grief and the searing passion that comes from knowing the injustice in...