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“A portrait of my children, once a week, every week, in 2013.” Che: In the garage, sorting through boxes of miscellany. Poet: The mischievous spark of an almost-two-year-old sitting [...]

comfort

Thank you for all your beautiful and honest comments on my last post. It was such a pleasure to read through your stories and learn a little bit more about you and your ‘home’. Whilst [...]

by the sea

Poet on our local beach in her sweet arti pants / aztec storm scarf in ocean hues c/o scout & catalogue We live near the ocean and its palette of sea spray, salt and sand. This is, and always [...]

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“A portrait of my children, once a week, every week, in 2013.” Che: Just. So. Happy in the ocean – clothes ‘n all. Poet: In amongst the plants she found a bird bath. Oh! [...]

the weeks after I weaned

  sage tea to help dry up the milk / sweet floral clothes from printbebe It’s raining here today, for breakfast we ate porridge with maple syrup and banana and I can’t see us getting [...]

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“A portrait of my children, once a week, every week, in 2013.” Che: …in the morning light. Poet: …in the afternoon light.   An autumn light diptych complete with blue and [...]

when nature decides

The past week has reminded me, with such clarity, that we are nature. When Poet came down with a fever a few weeks ago she fed like a newborn. Day and night she would cuddle in and I, with all my [...]

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“A portrait of my children, once a week, every week, in 2013.” Che: I see a photo frame, a tree frame and a hair frame. Poet: She’s all better, ravenous for food and looking [...]

slow days, rest days

…get better soon days. When your baby has a fever, time stands still. Since Wednesday afternoon Poet has been unwell, her eyes heavy and sad. She has had an on-again-off-again fever, [...]