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Death & Resurrection
I’ve mentioned it before, but I’m pretty great about handling a storm. In the midst of it, I know where to place my trust and my mind. It’s the aftermath that usually gets me. It’s an uncanny, warm place for me to just sit. I’m learning more and more how to rest and sit with…
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Riparian Land Lockdown
Once upon a time, not that long ago (2022), a bill was brought to the Washington State legislator that was about riparian buffers. Upon reading it, I recognized quickly my extreme opposition. I did my due duty and both expressed my opposition to my legislators, but also testified on behalf of my position, and reached…
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Farming Is The Best Career
I was honored to be invited by Ed Hamilton Rosales of LULAC Grows to the first ever, in-person Agriculture & Food Conference in Southwest Washington this past week. I attended both days of the conference, and was quite inspired by the event overall. I want to share several take home items. I made many notes,…
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Protected: StumpTown Village Deets For Prospectors
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The Storehouse
One of the early projects we took on here at the farm was to ready the upstairs of the Gathering Barn for hosting. Since then, it has been full of happy faces once a week, often more! The space has served our community in ways we never would have imagined, and we are thankful be…
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Size Doesn’t Matter
I wrote this blog on November 1st of 2017. Five years ago. I couldn’t post it then as I wasn’t free to talk about the hard parts, similar to how the woman that I refer to in the opening paragraph likely felt. Fear. Silence. Obedience. Preserve [false] reputations. Ironic, no, that I’m speaking specifically to…
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Courage
The older I get, the more I look back on things. Things I may have avoided or left for done that have changed a bit as I look back reflectively rather than straight at them. Things I haven’t shared because the time wasn’t right, or my heart wasn’t right. Really hard, vulnerable things. This morning…
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Unconditional Love
This was written year ago today. Before I was sharing publicly some of this. *** Today my grandmother is going to meet her Maker and see her husband again. She is ready. Last week she got severely sick, landing her in the ICU. We were unable to visit her, but I have closure. I spent…
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Healing Sex
I wanted to follow up with resources for anyone who may be wanting to dig a bit deeper on this subject. Oddly (not odd at all), after I drafted this blog, I came across a book called The Great Sex Rescue by Sheila Wray Gregoire. I’m a few chapters in, and now feel like I’m…
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Sex Misinterpreted
Sex is on my mind. Here’s the thing: You likely aren’t being taught well. Everywhere you look you’re being taught about sex, and yet the church is staying silent, at best. Worse, we have seen Christians convolute sex even more than the grocery aisles or movie theaters, and I’ve no doubt the devil has a…