a sprinkle of faith

Tag: Family

  • Reconciliation

    Reconciliation

    “When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.” -Yiddish Proverb –Part II of The Magical Harmonica– A mockingbird in our dogwood tree gleefully announced that the storm was over. The sun was shining outside. After falling asleep to the sound of his beautiful music, my…

  • Trouble in Paradise

    Trouble in Paradise

    Stories We Tell A Fictional Series It’s not necessarily a good thing when the people you love think too highly of you. Dizzy always did, but that kind of changed the night of the spin the bottle game – when I broke down and told her that I had just as many fears as she…

  • Richer Stories

    Stories We Tell A Fictional Series Having two brothers who were not much younger than many of my friend’s parents, it stands to reason that I had a niece and nephew before I graduated from junior high. It was pretty cool to call myself an aunt, because it was like some weird rite of passage.…

  • Circle of Life

    Circle of Life

    Stories We Tell A Fictional Series Having a child is the ultimate game changer. No matter how crazy or mixed up life may be, it finally starts to make sense, and you’re able to grasp a hold of this concrete, unwavering sense of the reason you exist – to keep your child safe. When I…

  • Rustic Simplicity

    I was excited to take part in this prompt (almost a day late), so I scanned through my images thinking I would find something rustic, like a tree in the woods. I saw the folder with scanned family photographs and found this one of my great great grandfather, and thought it would be so cool…

  • Good Ol’ Days

    Since I’m still excited about personalized portraits (and waiting for my next victim) I thought I’d play around with a new style this weekend. This one’s an old family photograph that’s been circulating in my “circle.” The original was scanned, and pretty small, so the task was to figure out how to keep it from…