by Ashley Larkin | Feb 11, 2013 | Concrete Words, Faith, Perspective
I walk down the paved road that runs parallel to the shore, then cross over the bridge where the men wait over crab nets and talk about how long they’ve been there and how they’ve yet to catch one. I step onto the beach alone, and the sun is gloriously...
by Ashley Larkin | Feb 4, 2013 | Biblical tales, Community, Concrete Words, Faith, Fear, Grace, Hope, Risk-taking
For the last weeks, Sici’s collected boxes. One fits inside another inside another. She will wrap them in different papers, and her friends will unwrap one at a time, passing the square around the party circle. I’m not sure if it’s the peeling itself...
by Ashley Larkin | Jan 27, 2013 | Community, Concrete Words, Family, Marriage
In the house of a girl who loves them, this one stands apart. She’s got ceramic dishes, jars and Tupperware full of rocks and stones (though she’d need to Google to know the difference between the two). And, though once they belonged to Yosemite, Crater...
by Ashley Larkin | Jan 21, 2013 | Community, Concrete Words, Faith, Giving, One Word: Trust, Perspective, Truth-telling
I don’t want to know what I weigh so much as what I weigh in comparison to you. Not on the bathroom scale with the hand jumping from zero, though sometimes I think about that too. More, I wonder how I measure up to you on those scales used in faraway markets and...
by Ashley Larkin | Dec 10, 2012 | Celebration, Childhood, Concrete Words, Mothering, Parenting, Perspective
The three wise men and their ornate pedestal containers wandered through my dreams last night. I smelled the incense first. I woke thinking of the spices that must have filled the small room, wafting under the noses of the toddler baby and his parents. The exotic...
by Ashley Larkin | Dec 3, 2012 | Celebration, Childhood, Concrete Words, Family, Mothering
Next weekend, we’ll make the long drive to Mike’s Tree Farm — $10 any noble tree, u-cut. We’ll sip foamy hot cocoa from our travel mugs, sing to Nat King Cole first and then The Muppets. After we’ve walked laps around our last favorites,...
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