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Sarah Tevendale
A worn out old coder, pale from spending too long hunched over a keyboard fiddling about with PHP.
When not doing that, she’s a bit of a mad cat lady, with three rescue cats who think they own the place.
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Compost Queen
Compost Queen is a quirky Miss whose talents lie in gathering the detritus of life, forgotten ‘refuse’ scattered by a dismissive Natural World and combining it in ways that value the lost and forgotten. She sees the absurd, the lonely, and the tiniest of details—shadows that are missed by all but He who casts. Using words, ideas, and wonder, she clothes her world in color, preserved in poetry, mediated by music, lavished by Light.
Buried in layers of ‘yuck’ under a tree, rotted leaves, creepy critters, and discarded veggies that once delighted squirrels, piled atop the playground of earthworms, diving hither and fro, casting their own tunneled shadows undisturbed by chaos around the pile, the value increases. Over time, micro-organisms are activated by heat, moisture, sugars, a good flip over on occasion, and a safe place to develop. When one day, the pile cools off, the shovel plunges deep, and the most amazing thing emerges, rich and fragrant! What was discarded as trash becomes the Gardener’s Gold, ready to be added to seedlings, saplings, and pots of over-wintered geraniums. Trash blossoms into treasure.
Compost Queen delights in watching curiously as riches emerge from the depths where few willingly travel, but she breathlessly waits for a time when the pile is ready to spread and share. It nourishes the neglected, fosters the forgotten, and revitalizes the roots of those organisms stressed by circumstances of drought or drowning. As compost energizes the soil, a well-placed word can open doors long sealed, and soften hearts hardened by hurt so they may trust again. She sees where intimacy’s seeds lay dormant and deeply desires to offer just the right recipe for germination.
She tends to the dramatic, poetic, and prosaic. She talks too much, yet is quite comfortable in silence. -
Lone Star
LoneStar is a member of a generation on the edge of today, but feeling like the middle of yesterday, and sometimes a bit fearful about where they fit (or IF they fit) into tomorrow.
When many of the people you have known are fading away, or already gone, it makes you think differently about every blessed-minute you are given. It makes you more thoughtful, more tender, and perhaps a little less confident than you used to feel. LoneStar is a walking encyclopedia of history and folkloric stories, and has agreed (a bit reluctantly) to share both personal, and those picked up along the way. Sometimes, the two of those get blurred, and that’s okay.
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Ma Belle
MaBelle is a Louisiana princess who is forced to be in Texas for this season of her life. She travels the pathways grown worn and familiar by years of faith in He who laid the stones she treads. Utterly in love with the Lord, her family, and all things related to her beloved home state (that “L” shaped place east of the Great State of TEXAS), MaBelle struggles to maintain her sanity as God keeps answering her prayers.
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Sunny Day
Sunny Day is a proud but tuckered single mom to two rambunctious kids who keep her jumping and climbing and keeping everyone well-grounded. She works hard, plays hard, and dreams big. In her world of tadpoles, tree-swings, and ornery kittens, there is little rest but a whole lot of wonder, mostly at the end of each day when she wonders how she got through it and wonders if she can do it again tomorrow.
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Mishy Dish
Mishy Dish (a cat-lady) is something of an anomaly. She is none of the things her family expected her to be, but is all of the things she is supposed to be. A walking encyclopedia of Rock N Roll trivia, she is also a soft touch for any feline with a sob story. An educator who takes on the cases everyone runs from, she lives day to day, calmed only by the sound of a deeply-contented purr, and a lapful of kneaded dough.
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Alie Oops
Alie is from a “younger generation” but beyond this, she doesn’t act as young as she is chronologically. Her perspective is framed by her admitted lack of longevity, but she is bright, eager to learn, and always respectful of the views of others. She may not agree or even see where others are coming from, but she is aware that we all have our human failings and precious value in common. When she disagrees (and that happens a lot), she does so with a surprising humility that shines like a new penny.
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Double G
Double G is a double meaning, high-flying grandma and rancher, destined for Greatness, surprised by Grace, and Overcome by God’s providence. Deeply in love with life as it unfolds before her eyes, she waits with open hands, and Grateful heart for the next harvest, coming in the next Generation.
She looks forward to Growing, with everything else in the Garden. -
T&E&WeeG
T&E (and little Wee), Inc., are a couple of amazing folks, madly in love with life, their upcoming acquisition, and each other. Finding their purpose in loving young people in their church, they pour themselves into everything they do, particularly anything related to their dog, a Jeep, trips to the beach, and anything else God allows their way. They add a unique view of life, and will try to engage readers with a “Couple Perspective” that although young, contains so much combined life experience that wisdom simply oozes from their outlook.
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Petals the GardenDoc (I@H-D)
Petals is a reformed educator-turned-therapist in south Texas. She blogs under the Garden Doc because after 20+ years of writing mostly for professional purposes, including nine years toward a terminal degree, she finally has the gift of time in her garden and the freedom to read and write on topics of interest to her, and not for an ARD / dissertation / IRB committee, a professor or a journal editor. She isn’t grading or editing into the wee hours of the morning, so she gets a lot more sleep (something her family appreciates.)
These days, when she isn’t working (and writing process notes), she spends precious time with her favorite people, crafting tools, a cantankerous cat, prolific pollinators, beneficial bugs and slimy slugs in the wild places surrounding her home- (and she could not be happier).
