Moving is hard. Moving after 30 years in a place is probably even harder. I don't know for as sure, as this is my first time making such a move, but it feels harder. And more emotional. Which might be the 30-year thing, or it might be the peri-menopause. Who can say? As a child, I moved a lot. I think one time I counted 12 places that my family had lived in 12 years. Looking back, I realized ... View Post
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For our next adventure…
If you follow me on Facebook or Instagram, you might have seen that we are selling our beloved Preservation Acres and heading off for a new adventure. A new adventure that we are over the moon to tell you about. But first, a little back story for those new to our story. About 16 years ago, with help from the Holy Spirit via Phyllis Tickle and her Farm in Lucy series, Nathan and I began to ... View Post
Oblate in Training
The following is an essay I wrote for the Community of St. Mary Southern Provence Newsletter, in which I share a bit of the back story in how I have found myself in discernment to be an Oblate in their community. “Ultimately it is the land and what it knows that sustains life; and it was to the land that we had to take our children before it was too late.” - Phyllis Tickle, from the ... View Post
Doing Church Outside
I don't know exactly when it began, when the seeds were planted for my love of outdoor church, but I think it probably began with VBS, with the brown bag picnics we would have on the lawn on the last day. In my memory those days are full of friends, laughter, food, and singing - and church. All my favorite things together. Or maybe it was the annual fish fry at the Presbyterian campgrounds ... View Post
New Growth
Well, it's Spring, and it is Lent, which can only mean one thing - more succulents! Every spring I buy a collection of new succulents, and every year about half of them live and half of them die. This means that slowly, little by little, I am gathering a healthy, year-round collection of these water-saving plants. But these little gems are not the only new growth around Preservation Acres ... View Post
The end of autumn and other things
Autumn weather is finally here. Just in time to wind things down and move towards Advent. Rumor has it there will be a freeze tonight. I gathered up what could be the last of the pumpkins and zinnias, and I am anxious for Sweet Man to get home from his trip to L.A. so he can get the wood stove up and burning. I love coming home on a cold, crisp, dark night and seeing smoke coming out ... View Post
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