The Lost World of Adam and Eve (Part 13: Conclusion)
If you are reading this conclusion first, and wish to read the rest of the summaries for John Walton's book The Lost World of Adam and Eve, they can be found below in ascending (not descending) order...
View ArticleCreating a Home
To order a home.To create a space of peaceand maintain itfor the purpose of restful abiding and relationship.It is God’s work.He began itwith the separating of watersand the gathering of seasand the...
View ArticleTwo Are Better Than One
Ecclesiastes 4:9-13 (Plus some extra bits)Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they tear pages out of Aesop’s Fables, they will be given swats together. And...
View ArticleDaily Life: In the Front Yard
When our neighbors’ fig trees are ripe, we’re blasted with wafts of their rich, wine-like scent. It’s unmistakably potent. Then the green Japanese beetles come bumbling around knocking into things as...
View ArticleHow to Raise the Perfect Child
It’s possible! But you’ve got to do things right. Perfect children are made by walking a fine line between many mistakes.1. First, properly deal with the crying. Refrain from always rushing to your...
View ArticleGranada Heights Friends Church
Church is a complex thing. It’s full of arms that rocked me in a room once painted with bible murals. It’s full of hands that gave me donuts and Big Sticks, and lifted me onto the organ bench so I...
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Surprised by Gratitude
1. Children calmly deposited with Mama Mina2. Parched brush on the brown hills that smell of sage and Coyote Bush3. Driving through ponds of morning fog still clinging to the coastline4. White cliffs...
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The Small in the Sea
I spy the black and white striped legs of a hermit crab traversing the course sand and broken pieces of shells. I spy his sister two inches from his antennae, and there are their parents watching, and...
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Eternally Examining
O, that all of life could be a vacation, a breakfast of bacon and eggs and pots of tea at 11 am. A leisure stroll down the beach among tide pools where depressions in the rock cradle a cornucopia of...
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Comstock Inc.
Occasionally during company breakfast meetings, wild zebras will appear on the wall. Sometimes they are on the ceiling too. And sometimes the bowls of cream of wheat catch on fire and we have to spray...
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Oh Girl!
She’s bubblegum and butterflies and ruffles and kittens.Who knew that God made such girly girls!She gazes up at me before we go out and points at my accessories one by one. Then beaded necklaces go...
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The Great Story in the Forever Afterwards
I’d love to know how what I do has affected others. I’d love to hear how some letter that I wrote to someone gave them the courage to text an old childhood friend. And that childhood friend might have...
View ArticleBattle Speech of the Materfamilias
Daughters of America, of the world. My Sisters. I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me! A day may come, when the courage of women fails, when we forsake our men and break all...
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Top Ten Toys for Little Boys
1. PVC pipes: these work like giant tinker toys. Glue them together to make golf clubs or handle-bar swings. They can be also be any manner of make-believe tool.2. Ropes & Swings: hammocks,...
View ArticleSacrificing Inward Integrity
Divulgence of the heart, to freely speak my deductions and desires regardless of their affect, is a selfish luxury. To foist my thoughts upon others and to call the speaking of these things honest...
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Halloween (Lumberjacks & Kitties)
A banana was running the Whittier's Spooktacular 5k. Two bananas actually. And a gorilla, Noah's ark, the standard princess-fairy-undead crowd, a six-foot-tall unicorn, a plethora of super heroes, and...
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Vegetable Tom Yum Soup
We've been battling colds around here the last two weeks. This called for some spicy Thai Tom Yum soup, which turned out to be fairly simple to make. I got my recipe off allrecipes.com and then tweaked...
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The Alliance
With each change of the seasons and change in the children's abilities, I remember. Like déjà vu, these wintery days of indoor rough housing, laughter, food, and alliances. There were alliances in my...
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Treasure Gathering
I am a collector of treasures. With my plastic beach bucket and journal of blank pages. And my pathway is strewn with lumps of gold and plates of silver. With emeralds and rubies and sapphires and...
View ArticleMarks on a Rock
I wash the bathroom rug every three weeks or so. Today was that day. It was clean. And then I went to get another load of laundry outside and Rose toddles into the bathroom and wets her pants while...
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