by Ashley Larkin | Dec 22, 2015 | Celebration, Perspective, Truth-telling
I sit by the Christmas tree – a ragged little miracle. The front lacks appropriate branches, and so the white goat on wheels lilts strongly toward the center, as do the handprint snowmen and jack-in-the-box. The wooden cranberry garlands hold on the best they can. We...
by Ashley Larkin | Jul 27, 2015 | Grace, Gratitude, Mothering, Truth-telling
I read of longing and desire from bed, covered in the quilt I brought from home and a rightly heavy down comforter. The walls are yellow like sun, and I am sick. Not the worst sick I’ve been in my life, but sick that looks weak and tired in the eye, feels the cold...
by Ashley Larkin | Jan 5, 2015 | #OneWord365, Community, Fear, Hope, One Word: Fearless, One Word: Seek, Risk-taking, Surrender, Truth-telling
While Michael built a bonfire, and the girls constructed a playground from driftwood, I took a brief walk down the beach, through packed sand, over piles of strewn logs and past tide pools. It was a day of transition — the year’s newness still palpable,...
by Ashley Larkin | Oct 24, 2014 | Five Minute Friday, Risk-taking, Trust, Truth-telling
I dared named Shame this week. Looked her right in accusing, bloodshot eyeballs and told her to get out of my car, my bed. My muscles recognized her first, that old rush and dull ache of inadequacy, vague regret. I told her she wasn’t welcome anymore, that she...
by Ashley Larkin | Oct 10, 2014 | Five Minute Friday, Surrender, Truth-telling
It happens so often. I feel excited and all revved up to write on Friday. The word is released in Thursday’s late hours, and I see it. Nothing. I trace back over my week, all the memories of faces and moments, all the moments I thought I could write, and they...
by Ashley Larkin | Oct 1, 2014 | 31 Days 2014: Doing As I Say, Faith, Perspective, Surrender, Truth-telling
Yesterday I posted that I’d be diving this month into what I say vs. how I live, what I believe vs. how I move through the world. I intended to take an un-bossy look at personal integrity for the next 31 days in order to get at deeper Truth that sometimes passes...
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