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June 20, 2011 by Lore Ferguson in Uncategorized

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Yesterday, with no warning, our family lost the man who has sheltered, loved, stabilized, challenged, and cherished our mama and her whole brood of babies for half my life. One of the biggest regrets of my life was being too slow to warm to him but o

A blessing for your weekend (and may it carry you through July):

May you wake early and make a last minute decision that you’ll never regret. May you trust there’s something good and great and even beautiful through the fog in front of y

There are lots of opinions about “announcing your absence” from these social media spaces. Some think it’s performative, some think it defeats the purpose, others are performative.

Here’s where I am: it’s not my work or

Two important papers:

In January I began working on a book without an agent or publisher. I had one conversation with @sethhaines about it, and a few with @wilbertnate, but mostly it was a quiet project, a joyful one. By February @jdblase agreed to

About a year and a half ago, right before the pan...orama started, a friend introduced me to the @monkmanual. I was intrigued and having no idea how much like a cloistered monastery my life would look over the next year, I began to use it.

Right awa

Went loon hunting today and was not disappointed. There’s nothing like a loon call on a still mountain pond (in this case, literally Mountain Pond). 🌲🦆🪨

Today I finished the final first draft of the new book. More about that later this week, but first, thank you for all your prayers. It has been a labor of love and I honestly think I love the book and what the book will become as it goes through the

A (belated) blessing for your weekend:

May you find a cool corner or space or pillow or popsicle, something to take the edge on the heat. May you hear something beautiful that you can’t get out of your head and when you share it with someone y