by Robin Farnsworth | Jan 12, 2014 | Hope, Loss
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: Ecclesiastes 3:1 KJV (also the Byrds 1960’s) The ground was soft, giving way under my steps. I couldn’t help but think that this same path was covered by snow, drifting up to three feet,...
by Robin Farnsworth | Dec 28, 2013 | Hope, Loss
Christmas was chaos this year. I kept trying to escape it, to climb up higher, where I could see far over it all and find perspective but I failed. A couple of years after Spence died, I expressed to my mother, who had also lost a child, how hard Christmas was now....
by Robin Farnsworth | Dec 26, 2013 | Uncategorized
Yarmouth Annual Spencer Macleod Three Point Shoot Out Every summer for the last seven years, Victory Chapel, through the Yarmouth Parks and Recreation department, has held the Spencer Macleod Three Point Shoot Out. It’s an event that reaches into the community, to...
by Robin Farnsworth | Dec 14, 2013 | Random
I’ve had writer’s block for about a week now. At least that’s how long I have wanted to write something but can’t. They say you should just write anyway, a defiant shaking of the fist at the blank page, like, “The blank page is beautiful” one hundred times or...
by Robin Farnsworth | Nov 30, 2013 | Loss, Redemption
It’s November 12th and I’m looking out my window at a winter wonderland. It’s been steadily snowing for an hour and the ground is white, my hanging plants, which are still flowering, are frosted. Back in the garden I can imagine my little baby radishes trembling under...
