HeyJaredMary’s Pocketful of Prose
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That Funny Feeling and the Comfort of Circular Lessons (opens the original)
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Welcome to Pocketful of Prose, a community for sharing stories where I muse about my misadventures in and out of the garden. Pocketful of Prose is free for everyone, so go ahead and share with all of your friends. If you like it here, please click the heart at the bottom. It helps people find my writing. If you live in Spokane, there is one more spot in my creative memoir class which starts this Wednesday night at the Corbin Arts Center.Without further ado, today’s pocket.<d
This Week in the Garden (opens the original)
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Welcome to Pocketful of Prose, a community for sharing stories where I muse about my misadventures in and out of the garden. As always, there’s an audio of this pocket if that works better for your life. Pocketful of Prose is free for everyone, but you can support my work by becoming a paid subscriber. If you like it here, please click the heart at the bottom. It helps people find my writing.Subscribe now<a class="image
Bed by Bed, Learning from Anne Lamott in the garden (opens the original)
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“Thirty years ago, my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he’d had three months to write. [It] was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books on birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him, put his arm around my brother’s shoulder, and said, ‘Bird by bird, buddy. Jus
In the Silverwood Garden (opens the original)
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Welcome to Pocketful of Prose, a community for sharing stories where I muse about my misadventures in and out of the garden. Pocketful of Prose is free for everyone, so go ahead and share with all of your friends. If you like it here, please click the heart at the bottom. It helps people find my writing. Subscribe nowWithout further ado, today’s pocket.Silverwood is an amusement and water park in Northern Idaho, and even though I’ve nev
A Soft Start (opens the original)
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Welcome to Pocketful of Prose, a community for sharing stories where I muse and meander through the garden and my life. As always, links are in bold, and there’s an audio of this pocket if that works better for you. Pocketful of Prose is free for everyone, but you can support my work by becoming a paid subscriber. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!60D8!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.
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