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by Lisa-Jo | Jun 16, 2010 | Faith, Inbetween, Travel
On the wings of the evening I fly home. Sonic, grits, sweet potato fries and fellowship sitting full in my belly. I enter the in between. Airports transport us out of time. We wait, suspended, for hellos. We travel from one good-bye to another greeting with all our...
by Lisa-Jo | Jun 11, 2010 | Family, Kids, Travel
the country and not the city. a house and not an apartment. a well weathered farm house and not a new build. upstairs not downstairs. on hard wood floors, not carpet or tiles. next to a corn field, not a lake. inland and not by the ocean (I think). OK, your...
by Lisa-Jo | Jun 10, 2010 | A year of "no", Faith, Family, Inbetween, Kids, Marriage, South Africa, Travel
I’ve been on a strange journey the last five years. And I felt lost for large chunks of it. Since our first son was born in South Africa five years ago this August, Pete and I have lived in five different houses on two continents. We have hurt, we have rebuilt,...
by Lisa-Jo | Jun 7, 2010 | Faith, Family, Inbetween, Kids, Travel
I feel it in my hand. Gossamer fine, delicate thread. I hold it loosely to be sure I don’t snap it. I’m following it. Spiderweb-delicate strand, it leads me; it pulls me forward. Hand-over-hand I follow. Sometimes, in deep dark black nights I can’t...
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by Lisa-Jo | May 24, 2010 | A thousand gifts, Faith, Family, Kids, Motherhood, South Africa, Travel
It’s hard to start a new week with a load of worry. I’ve been carrying quite a lot of it lately. It’s heavy and uncomfortable. It’s giving me bad posture – it has me looking down instead of up. I shrug my shoulders, try to bear up under it, shift the weight around...
by Lisa-Jo | May 19, 2010 | Kids, Motherhood, South Africa, Travel
I’m raising two boys two and a half years and nearly 8,000 miles away from the country that runs in their veins. The blood red dust of the Karoo, the ostrich, the meerkat, the hadida. Thick accents and thicker maize meal cooked in three legged black pots over...
