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Permission to Rest: What Happened When I Embraced Stillness
“If you are continually judging and criticizing yourself while trying to be kind to others, you are drawing artificial boundaries ...
Dancing with Darkness: How to Reclaim Your Whole Self
“Shadow work is the way to illumination. When we become aware of all that is buried within us, that which ...
Trusting the Pause: When Patience Is Better Than Pushing
“The most powerful thing you can do right now is be patient while things are unfolding for you.” ~Idil Ahmed⠀ I ...
When Healing Feels Lonely: What I Now Know About Peace
“Avoiding your triggers isn’t healing. Healing happens when you’re triggered and you’re able to move through the pain, the pattern, ...
Purple passion and roses in Lucinda’s garden
When April’s roses unfurl their soft petals, Lucinda whips up Purple Passion cocktails and invites friends over to enjoy the ...
Read This: The Texas Native Plant Primer
A new book about Texas native plants is one of the best I’ve read: The Texas Native Plant Primer: 225 ...
Wildflower safari east to Independence
When Lisa Negri of SummerHome in Denver came to visit and told me she’d never seen bluebonnets, I made it ...
Hopping over to Ruthie’s hilltop garden
Last week, I hopped over to Ruthie Burrus’s garden, where colorful wildflowers bloom around spiky agaves and yuccas–and one big ...
Screech owl nesting in new owl box
LOOK! An owl! I believe we have a nesting female in our front-yard owl box. There’s another screech owl hanging ...
Edgeland House, where the wild things are
Edgeland House tucks into a bluff above the Colorado River, and a triangular green roof of prairie plants insulates the ...
