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Overcoming Fear: Navigating Anxiety and Spiritual Disconnect
Over the last couple years, I’ve participated in some different courses in looking for healing, particularly over anxiety, and in developing my faith. Currently, I am enrolled in the Cleansing Stream course. Below is a bit of my faith journey… Continue reading
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A Piece of the Garden in Winter
One of the garden goals Hannah and I have for over the winter season is to find a way for our mint plants to come back every year. As easy as it would be to achieve this goal, we want… Continue reading
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Potato Flop: A Spud-tacular Disappointment
This growing season, I had a bountiful potato harvest of 3 whole potatoes. Worst part: this harvest came from two seed potatoes. This past winter, I learned about planting potatoes in giant pots and bags. I loved the idea of… Continue reading
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Healing from a Shock Response: Casting my Anxiety
Last week Friday, I was travelling home from work with city transit, when a situation occurred that left me shaking. When I first started using city transit, I was on a great bus route, knew the bus drivers well, and… Continue reading
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Better Late Than Okra
My okra missed the memo on the growing season! 😂 It started strong indoors and come the nice spring weather, the okra even transplanted well into the garden. Only to get eaten in summer by some illusive creature. Now this… Continue reading
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Planting Garlic
Before the cold creeped in, I wanted to plant my garlic. Garlic requires a “cooling off” period before it starts to grow. The colder weather and upcoming snow was perfect for the garlic bulbs. My sister-in-law saves her garlic bulbs… Continue reading
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Wonderfully Different
I see the pattern coming to life before me. Struggles that were often misunderstood or misinterpreted under a different lens. How others were in turn affected. As I write, I’m still grappling with acceptance. Yet, one by one, lining up the… Continue reading
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Sharing Coneflowers
Jo and I both share a love for growing vegetables and flowers. Both of us have had success and failures even when we share the same seeds. Last season, we bought coneflowers to plant in our backyard. Not only beautiful… Continue reading
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First Successful Tomato Harvest
Harvesting from my garden is one of my favourite times of the year. Not only can I avoid the grocery store, but also enjoying a meal with produce grown by myself is a great feeling. When I started having an… Continue reading
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Purify My Intentions
There’s point A and there’s point B. It’s easy to envision and to live in these moments: the where-we-want-to-be and the what-is-missing in the here and now. Snapshots in time. God gave us these dreams but we hold on so… Continue reading
Grace Between the Fields 