Tag: family

28 Dec

The Apprentice

The Apprentice

I started writing this post back in August 2014. It seems like forever ago. It was a Saturday morning. I was dozing because I like …

 
By Lynsey
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22 Oct

Messages from the past

Messages from the past

In the past was common to pass plants, of all kinds, on. To share them with others. They were a kind of message in a …

 
By Lynsey
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02 Jan

Families

Families

I think of family as a fluid arrangement of people. Family is plural. It’s about a group of people who grow, together [and sometimes apart] through time, weaving stories visible and invisible to others.

 
By Lynsey
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10 Jan

Four eggs

Four eggs

I’m making breakfast for the family. I crack an egg – double yolks. Amazing! I’ve cracked hundreds – probably thousands of eggs and I’ve never …

 
By Lynsey
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09 Jan

The black sheep of the family

The black sheep of the family

Who, at some point, hasn’t thought that they might be the black sheep of the family? You know, that one person in the family that …

 
By Lynsey
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25 Dec

Christmas Plan B

Christmas Plan B

As Lynsey has already shared, we hadn’t planned on being home for Christmas. After only one day away we discovered we couldn’t continue to our …

 
By Marica
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19 Jan

Time passages

Time passages

We took our little family home to my home town for an all-too-short visit during the xmas/new year break. It was a strange feeling for …

 
By Lynsey
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18 Jan

Garden fresh

Garden fresh

When I was a kid my Dad created a highly productive vegetable garden. It was beautiful, but, sadly, we thought it was so mundane that …

 
By Lynsey
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11 Jan

Hello, house!

Hello, house!

We love our house. It’s more than our home, it’s part of our family. Sometimes when we come home we talk to our house. How you doing? How’s …

 
By Lynsey
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09 Jan

You’re not a swan

You’re not a swan

You know, sometimes the ugly duckling grows up to be … a duck. I was raised on the Hans Christian Andersen stories. My uncle’s name …

 
By Lynsey
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