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How the Babe Stole Grinchness
It’s been a really hard year. The kind of year that sinks it’s cold teeth into you and chills you all the way through. A year filled with moments of darkness, feeling hopeless and asking God difficult questions. Moments of waiting, endless waiting. Silence when I just want a comforting voice. At times I’ve felt tested and Continue reading
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The Three Births of Aurelia Claire
It’s close to four in the morning and I am awakened by the sound of my daughter crying. I slowly emerge out of a sleepy haze, rolling over to get out of bed. I pick my baby up out of her bassinet and try to comfort her. Her cry is loud now, reverberating across a silent Continue reading
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As the World Explodes with Love
I keep anticipating that moment outside time when my body releases yours after it has held you so tight and you become your own but how can I anticipate a bright star coming into existence across a galaxy how do I anticipate seeing you an oh-so-familiar stranger part me part the love of Continue reading
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Your New Eyes
It’s about time for a new life to see the world anew to see through that life precious and in awe you see, I’m afraid I have gotten old not in body but in soul the beauty which used to make me gasp hardly makes me turn my head you see, I’m afraid Continue reading
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Beyond Beautiful: A Letter To My Daughter
Dear Baby Girl, I can’t wait to welcome you into the world. You are brave to enter this place. It’s big and wide and complicated and dangerous. But it’s beautiful too. It’s filled with laughter and the smell of fresh-cut grass, and light shining on ocean waves and soon, you. Your arrival will make this Continue reading
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However Small the Source
however small the source of the sound of running water it is enormous in my soul I can’t tell you how the scent of damp leaves make tears leak only that I need to be in nature like breathing and You this is where I most clearly see Your name written etched in the Continue reading
Brooke Gale LouvieR 