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carrying a bucket full of wonder and hope

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carrying a bucket full of wonder and hope
carrying a bucket full of wonder and hope
  • the best things in the world
    adventure and memories | kitchen sink | messy heart | small talk

    the best things in the world

    7 May 201311 January 2023

    i’m distracted and tired and lonely these days. i’m lost and confused, and at the end of the day, when they put on their pjs, and brush their teeth, and…

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  • kitchen sink | small talk

    on roots, and dreams…

    18 November 201211 January 2023

    I wake in the middle of the night and don’t really know where I am.I’ve dreamt of our apartment, on the fourth floor, in Germany. In my dream, I walk…

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  • what comes next
    adventure and memories | kitchen sink | messy heart | small talk

    what comes next

    17 September 201211 January 2023

    Everybody wants to know what comes next.Since we’ve been home, I’ve been asked that question at once a week. We don’t know what comes next,only that something does. Something always…

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  • hope
    adventure and memories | kitchen sink | messy heart | small talk

    hope

    8 September 201211 January 2023

      “Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune–without the words, And never stops at all…”   Emily Dickinson, Hope

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  • Auf Wiedersehen Deutschland!
    adventure and memories | kitchen sink | messy heart | small talk

    Auf Wiedersehen Deutschland!

    15 July 201211 January 2023

      i carry your heart with me(i carry it inmy heart)i am never without it(anywherei go you go, my dear;and whatever is doneby only me is your doing,my darling)i fearno…

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  • almost home…
    adventure and memories | kitchen sink | messy heart | small talk

    almost home…

    18 June 201211 January 2023

    He said,”I just climbed out of a cottonwood tree.  I was runnin’ from some honey bees.  Drip dryin’ in the summer breeze  After jumpin’ into Calico creek.  I was walkin’…

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  • I blinked…
    adventure and memories | kitchen sink

    I blinked…

    7 June 201211 January 2023

        and we were walking home from Austin’s last day of preschool.   Hello, Summer.   

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  • lederhosen
    adventure and memories | kitchen sink | messy heart | small talk

    lederhosen

    5 June 201211 January 2023

      Guten Tag!

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  • stronger than the Army…
    adventure and memories | kitchen sink | messy heart | small talk

    stronger than the Army…

    23 May 201211 January 2023

            There are moments in your life that you’ll never forget.  I remember the day I met her– mom of two boys, a toddler and a little still-nursing…

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stronger than the Army…

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end of days

Yesterday was good. I hesitate to even say that out loud, because I don’t ever...
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the story ended…

There’s a house a few miles down the road. A year ago, I put all...
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