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The Wonder of Hope: The Benefit of Living in Darkness

by Charity Singleton Craig | Aug 12, 2020 | Blog, The Wonder Series

Hope is born in the shade, when the absence of light might otherwise leave us stunted. Instead, the darkness propels us to seek out bright spots, to find those places, however narrow, where the sunlight can break through.

My Word of the Week: Revelation

by Charity Singleton Craig | Jul 15, 2014 | Blog, My Word of the Week

rev·e·la·tion – noun \ˌre-və-ˈlā-shən\ : a usually secret or surprising fact that is made known : an act of making something known : an act of revealing something in usually a surprising way : something that surprises you __________ Recently, I’ve been...

Read and Respond: Still

by Charity Singleton Craig | May 1, 2014 | Blog, Read and Respond

An edited reprint from the Archives . . . I began this year’s garden a couple of weeks ago. To be technical, I began the garden about six weeks ago when I started the process of removing the sticks and leaves from the raised beds and cultivating the dirt with a...

Tenacity: How to Survive a Drought Beautifully

by Charity Singleton Craig | Aug 5, 2012 | Archived Blog Posts

For weeks I haven’t had to worry about mowing my yard or trimming the bushes or pulling weeds from the flower beds. The drought here in the Midwest has all but taken care of the yard work for the season. Even the watering became almost futile a couple of weeks...

There and Back Again: Home Grown

by Charity Singleton Craig | Jul 27, 2011 | Archived Blog Posts

They’ve been writing sestinas all month over at Tweetspeak Poetry. Maybe you remember them from literature class. Sestinas are those 39-line poems with all the structure and form of a contract, but with the rhythm and soul of a conversation. That’s why I...