by Ashley Larkin | Jun 19, 2015 | Perspective, Poetry
The fussy toddler wears poop right close to his bottom – you can tell he has for a while. Hot unwashed bodies carry unique scents like pepper, fermenting fruit, soaked and dried again towels. Final days have ways of making a person think extra long about things...
by Ashley Larkin | May 21, 2015 | Love, Marriage, Perspective, Poetry
Sea foam sizzles and waves rumble, and both call me right to the edges because I feel no choice but to see life in contrasting metaphor, how Love is thunder and a settling into sands, gentle dance of bubbles in glass Pelicans hover over waters as on our honeymoon 17...
by Ashley Larkin | Mar 6, 2015 | Five Minute Friday, Mothering, Perspective, Poetry, Rest, Surrender
i am scattered bits, disconnected, harried, shaken and God bids walk, listen birds call and caw and pound, woodpecker makes morse on a hollowing limb, crow open beak screams from a high branch, lark song rises praise i am like the birds i flit, dart from a branch to...
by Ashley Larkin | Oct 16, 2014 | Celebration, Childhood, Faith, Giveaway, Perspective, Poetry, Risk-taking, Surrender
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by Ashley Larkin | Sep 22, 2014 | Perspective, Poetry
During days I once slowed to listen for hidden sounds, to take in contrast of chaos against calm, pressing needs against what simply is without me, things for which I’ve no responsibility. I’d trained myself to find the ground in small noises, that sudden...
by Ashley Larkin | Sep 18, 2014 | Grace, Gratitude, Poetry
for day on day, clouds hang heavy, blanket of wool on sticky hours, people ask, when will it rain? say, we really need rain. say, it’s getting sorta scary all these days with no rain we, the people of gore-tex and pulled up hoods (and only umbrellas if...
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