by Shari Dragovich | Mar 26, 2014 | Faith, Nature, Ribbon Box
Yesterday it snowed in the Virginia mountains…again. Never could I have imagined living south of the Mason-Dixon line and having to endure so much snow. I guess that just goes to show that: a) I don’t have a very big imagination (or sense for weather patterns in...
by Shari Dragovich | Jan 24, 2014 | Faith, Nature, Ribbon Box
The snow blankets the forest floor behind my home. I can see its folds and rolls, its pitches and shallows. It is a white blanket spread out only for me and I know it. In the six months we’ve lived here, I have yet to walk through my backyard woods. Oh, I have...
by Shari Dragovich | Jan 12, 2014 | Faith, Nature, Ribbon Box, These Days
Those of you who visit here regularly know I am a wannabe poetry maven, however can never seem to pass “Poetry 101”. But Wendell Berry, I understand him. He is my favorite (which, my faithful tens of readers also know, I don’t use the word “favorite” lightly). This...
by Shari Dragovich | Jan 9, 2014 | Faith, Nature, On Writing, These Days
“So you see, we are a dot, living on a dot, spinning around a dot, positioned within a dot that is one of hundreds of billions of dots within the universe…” This was the how the Sunday morning message began. I sat listening to Dr. James Peterson, Schumann Professor of...
by Shari Dragovich | Nov 27, 2013 | Faith, Home Front, Nature, Ribbon Box
The trees stand naked now–other than a few stubborn brown oak leaves insistent on hanging to their keeper, pretending they are Spanish moss on old Southern live oaks but looking more like soggy bits of brown paper bag scattered by a gusting wind and caught by...
by Shari Dragovich | Nov 5, 2013 | Faith, Nature, Ribbon Box
My eldest son and I were driving home from school on Friday chatting easily about his day: his relief at passing his Algebra 1 practice SOL (standardized testing for VA) that had him all knotted the night before, his concern for a football buddy hit hard in the prior...
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