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...
by Shari Dragovich | Oct 27, 2013 | Bookmarks, Currently Reading, Faith, Nature, Ribbon Box
For the past several years, I have taken to reading poetry on Sunday mornings. Wendell Berry’s, A Timbered Choir: Sabbath Poems 1979-1997 are my favorite. Here is one I read this morning, I must share with you…. To Sit and Look at Light-filled Leaves To...
by Shari Dragovich | Oct 18, 2013 | Ribbon Box, These Days, Uncategorized
This week I’ve been jammin’ out my daily chores to The Avett Brothers’ new album, Magpie and the Dandelion. I discovered The Avett Brothers while living as a North Carolinian, reading Our State and Garden & Gun magazines, working at absorbing every ounce of this...
by Shari Dragovich | Oct 15, 2013 | Nature, Ribbon Box, These Days
We were driving home Sunday from a mountain vacation weekend (an oddity, considering we live in the mountains) when my phone dinged a text from my new sister-in-law: “Happy first harvest day!!! Soo excited for my first combine experience.” The animated joy in her text...
by Shari Dragovich | Oct 8, 2013 | Faith, Home Front, Nature, Ribbon Box, These Days
There are some trees in my deeply sloped back yard—really more forest than yard—which have beat all the others in donning their fall color. They are over-achievers demanding attention and have their moment of glory first. These trees are scrawny compared to those...
by Shari Dragovich | Jul 6, 2013 | Home Front, Mothering, Ribbon Box, Women's Issues
I know a woman whose daughter came into her womanhood at too young an age. The girl’s body—so confused by its extreme malnutrition, lack of stability and absence of a father for much of her life’s early years—kicked into high gear and developed itself without regard...
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