by Ashley Larkin | Feb 7, 2013 | Childhood, Community, Family, Fathering, Gratitude, Love, Mothering, Redemption, Trust
I believe in grace and second chances, the power of sunshine sketches, and I love you with a full heart etched across a napkin and folded into a lunch box between the apples and carrots. I believe in the wink and the smile, the thumbs-up across the room, the shoulder...
by Ashley Larkin | Nov 28, 2012 | Celebration, Childhood, Fathering, Mothering, Parenting, Perspective, Surrender, Trust, Truth-telling
I’ve got to write — I know this is part of the work for me — though I’m not sure where the writing will go. I struggle to find my voice again after a few days away. Why is it hard to enter back in? I repeat the early morning rituals of a woman...
by Ashley Larkin | Nov 12, 2012 | Concrete Words, Family, Fathering, Perspective, Sorrow
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by Ashley Larkin | Sep 20, 2012 | Celebration, Fathering, Love, Marriage
He is a dream cupper and a hand holder and a call it like he sees it. He is deep thinking, tender kissing and recognize your limits. He is faith of rocks, and wisdom deep, be still and know, and it’s going to be okay. He is sun rise and sun set, day after...
by Ashley Larkin | Aug 14, 2012 | Childhood, Fathering, Just Write, Love, Marriage, Mothering
They sleep under the canopy of one bedroom ceiling now, and so before I head to bed each night, I enter through one door to give kisses on cheeks and climb a ladder too small for my feet to pray for love and grace and strength for the three. A few nights ago, upon...
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