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Continue reading →: Downieville, CA (if you don’t know it, you should)Downieville, CA (if you don’t know it, you should) is a place that lives in my heart year round. All year long, my family counts the days until we’re back. Downieville is a place of endless inspiration, history, natural beauty, and let’s be real about the most important part, really–good–food!…
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Continue reading →: Back at the Beginning of CreationI wish I could conjure a way to lay this restless yearning back inside my bones where it was once quiet If I could do that Then the mountains might stop whispering to me through the cracks between every other thought And maybe I’d be able to think straight again…
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Continue reading →: Tap it Just RightThe burden usually lurking in my bones is hung around my neck in the form of my mother’s pearls. The thought that there are thirteen of them, and not twelve, consumes the space in my mind that I should be using to fasten my hair away from my face. But…
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Continue reading →: The Waiting RoomSometimes the past comes flooding back to me Devouring my state with its heavy load And suddenly, I am every woman I have ever been The woman I was before the clouds parted and an angel fell to earth Landing haphazardly in my unhemmed pocket The woman chasing the sunrise…

