Author: Nancy Emeral

Look Up …

December 29, 2025
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Dogs / Farm Life / Living Authentically / perspective / The Human Condition

Outside it’s drizzling that ‘just above freezing’ damp, bone-chilling cold that I find particularly horrible. My dreams of a white Christmas went unanswered this year and maybe that’s a perfect ending to a particularly difficult year for both our country and for the world. I’ve tried reminding myself how badly we need rain here in Eastern Washington. Nice try, but the truth is, its yucky outside and no amount of pasted-on optimism is going to […]

Feeding Wolves …

December 18, 2025
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Family & Legacy / Living Authentically / The Human Condition

My freshly cut Christmas tree is sparkling with tiny white lights. Every short needled branch boasts feathery birds, crystalline balls, handmade bird houses, and an odd assortment of miniature teddy bears, bells, and shiny stars collected over a lifetime. It’s gorgeous.  Candles and strings of lights illuminate a shelf in our great room and a felted wreath hangs in between winter coats and hats on a clothes rack by the door. In the center of […]

The Presence …

November 24, 2025
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Follow Your Heart / Mystical Connection

A few miles from our home is a highway that leads to a retail area with practically everything we need. It’s easy. It’s also frenetic. I’ve yet to drive on that road without cars and big-ass trucks cutting me off and tail-gating so closely they could easily connect to my bumper with a zip tie. Taking that route I’d be agitated by the time I arrived in town. Thankfully there is another way. Running parallel […]

Unintended …

October 9, 2025
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Abstract Art / Follow Your Heart

I can’t speak to another’s artistic process. Even my own is difficult to put into words, an elusive, other worldly energy fueled by whispers on the wind that echo inside my mind and manifest in a physical reality. A puzzling delight. I look for answers in the woods as the world is waking up. In the cool breezes of the early hours where deep wisdom is offered up from swaying tree branches while birds sing […]

I Choose the Blues …

August 19, 2025
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Farm Life / The Human Condition

I like blueberries. No, I actually love blueberries. If I were forced to have only one fruit for the duration of my life I would ‘choose the blues.’  Everywhere I have lived I have planted blueberry bushes, and sought out u-pick farms to satisfy my craving while waiting for my own plants to mature. That takes years. If you’re fortunate enough to move into a home with an existing mature patch, which I did many […]

Like a Boomerang …

June 30, 2025
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Farm Life / Follow Your Heart / Living Authentically

5:35 am and already I feel like I might be running late. The forecast is an unseasonably hot day, could reach 100 degrees. In Spokane where we live, this is expected in July or August, certainly not in June. I have 2 choices as I look to the day ahead; grumble, complain and feel sorry for myself, or just get to work doing whatever I can to keep all living things in my care as hydrated […]

One by One …

April 30, 2025
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Awareness / The Human Condition

It was one of those mornings when everything just seemed to be falling into place … The sun was shining, the coffee was just right, I had on my favorite jeans, my slice of bread came out of our finicky toaster perfectly, and the dogs went through their morning routine without a glitch. With list in hand (I’m big on list making) I set out for town to run errands. Even on the streets of […]

From Afar …

March 20, 2025
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perspective / Self-Care

Through a twist of fate an adventurous news anchor, Bradley Jackson, is recruited to do a live broadcast aboard a sub-orbital flight around Earth. After escaping Earth’s gravity she, and the other two passengers playfully float through the capsule, all enjoying the exhilarating liberation of weightlessness.  Bradley is no stranger to human conflict. She has witnessed firsthand and reported on some of the worst of humanity. Seeing the whole of Earth from the vast expanse […]

Emptiness …

March 4, 2025
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Abstract Art / Mystical Connection

My limbs were virtually immobile, arms and legs sticking straight out. I was bound in a stiff, puffy suit cartwheeling through the vastness of space and unable to stop, slow down or course correct. The chilling unearthly silence of an infinite void surrounded me, a black empty sea. My only points of reference, the twinkling white lights going in and out of my vision. I tumbled around and around to what would eventually, surely be […]

Love really is a 4 letter word …

February 11, 2025
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Dogs / Follow Your Heart / Mortality

Well, it’s official … our household has gone to the dogs. To two puppies actually, Moose & Maya. These little fur balls with sugar sweet faces and fluffy soft white fur (when they’re not smeared with poop) have turned out to be terrorists in disguise.   The M&M’s teethe on everything they can fit in their mouths and generally rip it to shreds, pee copious amounts of urine frequently, howl when they want attention (which […]