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Emmy Pickering
- Feb 15, 2022
- 11 min
Saved by Grace
In late January Steve and I looked at each other and had to do a big check in. What are we doing? On our 15th rental, having spent our...
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Emmy Pickering
- Dec 28, 2021
- 5 min
Maniacally Hopeful
I walked back down the hill and watched as a huge morpho butterfly fluttered by me, its massive iridescent blue wings glinting in the...
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Emmy Pickering
- Sep 13, 2021
- 6 min
Tug of War
Imagine yourself at a game of tug of war. See yourself, which side you’re on. Feel the rope twisting around your hands, the weight of it,...
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Emmy Pickering
- Jul 28, 2021
- 6 min
Turtle Wisdom
My mom takes daily walks at the river by her house. There is a turtle conservation project and over time my mom has been witness to some...
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Emmy Pickering
- Apr 28, 2021
- 6 min
It Hurts
I remember once when I got my two dollar allowance (remember two dollar bills?!) and I promptly gave it to a man begging on the street....
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Emmy Pickering
- Jan 27, 2021
- 9 min
Hold The Line
I recognize in myself that I tend to want to live in fairy tales, I want to read them and I want to write them. I sat down many times...
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Emmy Pickering
- Dec 30, 2020
- 10 min
2020 Vision
2020 gotcha like? 2020 vision; It’s almost too easy to use that term this year but boy does it feel appropriate. Just over a year ago I...
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Emmy Pickering
- Dec 16, 2020
- 3 min
That Time Again
When people see those big promotions for setting intentions and resolutions I think many can feel overwhelmed by it all. The whole ‘new...
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Emmy Pickering
- Nov 25, 2020
- 5 min
Something Worth Celebrating
Sometimes after the girls are in bed I look through the photos on my phone and see them in the quiet of the moment I’m in, instead of the...
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Emmy Pickering
- Oct 28, 2020
- 5 min
To Sustain Us
This experience doesn’t exist today. Not readily, not easily. Sure it still does for the few who are not willing to depart from what they...
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Emmy Pickering
- Sep 23, 2020
- 7 min
A New World
I’ve had the beautiful distractions of house hunting and moving plus taking on a homeschooling rhythm, it’s given me a needed rest from...
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Emmy Pickering
- Aug 19, 2020
- 6 min
Into The Dwindling Light
It was a weekend retreat spent in the wilderness outside Kingston, a beautiful reprieve from my usually full days. The woman who...
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Emmy Pickering
- Aug 12, 2020
- 5 min
I’m Still Learning
A couple weeks back I shared a post from my friend Sarah on Facebook, about the importance of encouraging our daughters (but all children...
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Emmy Pickering
- Jul 29, 2020
- 5 min
What Matters Most
I will never look back on this time and regret it. I won’t regret how much togetherness there was, how close we all were, how day upon...
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Emmy Pickering
- Jul 22, 2020
- 6 min
The Breakdown
It’s all breaking down. School. Work. Society. Medicine. Economy. Technology. All the pillars of the foundation of life that we’ve been...
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Emmy Pickering
- Jul 1, 2020
- 4 min
Bright Spots
I have a book for each of my girls and I write to them on big holidays and their birthdays, I’ve been doing it since they were each in...
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Emmy Pickering
- Jun 3, 2020
- 8 min
Heart Magic
If you look up the antonym to logic you’ll come across a list of words that likely no one would choose to be defined by. Absurdity,...
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Emmy Pickering
- May 20, 2020
- 6 min
What’s Missing
I’ve rewritten this several times, l don’t usually do that. One of my readers and besties asked me the other day what my writing process...
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Emmy Pickering
- May 13, 2020
- 6 min
So, What’s Next?
Stock photo of the beautiful but shitty kookaburra When I was in my early 20s I backpacked for 6 months in Australia. I could write...
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Emmy Pickering
- May 6, 2020
- 5 min
Only Way Out
Edie Plum will be ten months old this week, she’s now at that super physical stage where she wants to be everywhere and do everything....
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