There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places. ― Wendell Berry, Given olive | every evening you come outside with me, to...

When life is sweet, say thank you and celebrate. And when life is bitter, say thank you and grow. ― Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet olive | I actually...

There are a thousand thousand reasons to live this life, everyone of them sufficient. ― Marilynne Robinson olive | your laugh is deep and rich, the sort that stems from...

“Everything is ceremony in the wild garden of childhood.” ― Pablo Neruda olive | The Monarch butterfly on our front porch emerged from its chrysalis this...

olive | You seem to be shifting daily, looking less and less little each day. You’ve been sleeping later this week, some days until mid-morning,...

olive | For Mother’s Day, you hugged me and said, “mom, I love that you are always kind to me and never feist me.” “Do...

olive| You found a turtle in our backyard this week and named him Wonder Kay Douglass. Wonder–for the way you said he must think about...

olive | Every morning you brush your hair and tie it up on your own. Sometimes you ask to wear lip gloss, and when I...

14 | What does courage mean? Can you think of a time when you had to be really courageous? olive | It was brave when I...

Time always moves faster than we expect. Like fishing with bare hands, I often grasp at it, trying to hold still all that is so...