It’s been a long week when the dog gets sick, lays on the floor shaking and wretching and the kids all mention that, incidently, that is exactly how you looked twenty four hours before, and maybe you’ve given that thing that wrung you out to poor pooch, and if that’s the case, he looks real...
“God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars.” ~Martin Luther So we go out and gather it all up…. and lay it on the old round table a parchment of His grace creation, unfurled to run our fingers across with all its textures and hues...
A walk in light and sun and wind and blazing world…. and we gather, set the world as the centerpiece in the midst of the stitched scraps, gathered too. And the toadstools, mushrooms, morels, fungi, quiet accordions of shy flesh collected, wait for the naming on snippets of paper, child taking stubby lead to christen...
Glimpses of the first day out… sharpened pencils and fresh notebooks and leather pencil cases, ready for the journey… a book collection for nature walks, for if the heaven’s declare, oh, we must get out there…Natural Science through the SeasonsHandbook of Nature StudyThe Burgess Flower Book for ChildrenThe First Book of TreesNational Audubon’s WildflowersGlimpses of...
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