You know that John Lennon song, “Happy Xmas (War Is Over)”? The beginning of it has been spinning on repeat in my head the last week or so: So this is ChristmasAnd what have you done?Another year overAnd a new one just begun. That’s kind of how I felt, leaving behind the season of AdventContinueContinue reading “Another Year Over”
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Incarnations and Epiphanies
December is a month steeped in tradition, when the fullness of our lives—the memories of our own childhoods, past Christmases, family and friends who have come and gone, things we’ve lost and found—all of it layers like phyllo dough into a pastry that wraps itself around the gooey, warm baked brie of right now. TheContinueContinue reading “Incarnations and Epiphanies”
Priests and Prophets… and Eating Paleo
In January, we almost mostly completed a Whole 30 reset together as a family. We’ve been here before, a couple of times, and although there were fewer bad habits to break this time, it’s always good to reassess and begin better habits over again. Looking back on these various endeavors, I think my most favoriteContinueContinue reading “Priests and Prophets… and Eating Paleo”
Little Joys—Books
This year, I’ve traveled through the desert on horseback with a shepherd and an alchemist. I’ve fished the lakes of Canada by canoe, attended a boy’s boarding school, learned the dance of the herons along a river, sat in the kitchen of a distressed and impoverished wife in Michigan, explored vocation, followed a friend asContinueContinue reading “Little Joys—Books”
Sarah Marie Wells 