She stands, unsteadily, arms stretched out. A baby bird, ready for flight. The cage keeps her safe. She tries her wings. Butter colored hair whips red cheeks, dimples. Grinning she dares. The truck lurches Round mountain curves She sways, falls into friends arms outstretched. She stands again. and laughs. Yells! […]
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Rainy Afternoon Musings
It started pouring rain this afternoon, washing the air from the smoke of burning rice stubble. Down in the fields I can still see the fires burning, but we can’t smell them anymore. It’s odd to have rain in cold season, and I’m reveling in it. The two oldest kids […]
Read MoreImages
There are things I want to show you, but don’t have any photos of. This is partly because they happen too fast for me to pull out my phone and snap them, also because my phone can’t catch these things adequately and the big camera is kind of a pain […]
Read MoreThe Art of Life
Our peach trees have that leaf curl disease that will eventually kill them if it goes untreated. We didn’t strip all the leaves last fall and spray it and it shows. Tons of little tiny peaches that drop before they are ripe and are rotten from the inside out. But […]
Read MorePHFR – July is almost over
I’m neck deep in event planning again. The Charis Comedy Night is this Saturday. If you are in San Diego come out for the show, and let me know you’re coming so I can be sure to say hi. I apparently have to talk and stuff, before the funny bits […]
Read MoreAn Embarrassment of Riches
They are all very loud, standing on the outside edge of the window sill, just behind this couch I sit in. There are bird sounds and many characters acting out voices and I wonder if today is another failure. Should I be letting them just run wild now, at 2:42pm […]
Read MoreThe cure for screechiness.
She is cranky all day, upset by everything, going from silence to screaming in 0 seconds flat. Her feelings are hurt by every imagined offense. Every slow response is a slight. She’s been getting worse every day for at least a week. Ever since a doctor’s appointment that scared her […]
Read MoreFor when she is tall…
“I will put it up for you mama.” She grabs a stool and pulls it underneath the doorway while I grin and watch her climb onto it. She stands on tiptoes and reaches, only half as high as she needs to be to hang up the towel. “Oh. I can’t.” […]
Read MoreJust Another February Day, in SoCal
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Read MoreI love this boy!
Look at how he smiles at me in the middle of the store when we’re out together. I am completely smitten by this boy. all content © Carrien Blue
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