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Toes :: A Poem for the Fourth Sunday of Advent

Posted on December 18, 2022 by Lindsey Gallant / 0 Comment

This poem is the heart of the sequence, and I think it’s my favourite. This is the upside-down mystery of Christmas which is good news for all of us in ti...

autumn/children/small/time

Out-of-Season October

Posted on October 24, 2022 by Lindsey Gallant / 4 Comments

I am huddled under heather-purple wool, writing about the darkness of fall and the sadness of all these hurricane-stripped trees, when little Ivy (always green)...

beauty/blessing/children/family/love/poetry/summer

The hammock

Posted on July 5, 2021 by Lindsey Gallant / 0 Comment

When the sun shines on Ivy’s golden hair,I catch a piece of the meaning of life.Here on the hammock,we read a poem and watch a bee crawling on the grass,m...

Advent/children/Christmas/nature

An Advent “Circuit Breaker” Diary

Posted on December 21, 2020 by Lindsey Gallant / 0 Comment

This was a series of posts I did on social media over the past couple of weeks. On December 7, the island entered a new phase of restrictions based on spreading...

Advent/children/family/morning/parenting

Stumping into December

Posted on December 3, 2020 by Lindsey Gallant / 0 Comment

Morning arrives by the clock and not the sun today. It’s rainy, 11 degrees, windy and gray. It’s December 1st, but it doesn’t feel like it. I wake to kids fight...