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June 01, 2018

I plant seeds in the garden, and then spend the next several days anxiously walking up and down the rows, looking for signs of life.

I am watching for seedlings, but I’m not watching for seedlings, because—as Tolkien observed through his created people, the Elves—the eyes of mankind is always “thinking of something else” , and that “they look at no thing for itself; that if they study it, it is to discover something else […] because it reminds them of some other clearer thing”*; because of the truth of Romans 1:20. I am wandering the garden path, and my mind wanders with it.

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Hi! I’m Erin, Christian, mother of five, photographer, second-generation homeschooler, and compulsive redecorator.

Last post I talked about our switch from (closed) vintage metal cabinets to an all-open shelving look for our kitchen lowers. the basic idea I’m wanting a really simple and straightforward look, like these in

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