HeyJaredWriting from the Desert Places
Orthodox Christian, wife (diakonissa), mother, and author writing from the desert places. West Texas. www.brandiwillisschreiber.com
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‘Til the Waters Come Again (opens the original)
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Help Support Literacy Lubbock (opens the original)
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Window Maker (opens the original)
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The Island and Saint Aidan (opens the original)
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My dear child,It is Tuesday, July 28, 2026. When I search the photos in my phone for July 28, a smattering of pictures and memories coalesce. Some are images of a past version of myself, marking seasons of loss or pain. But most are joyful.They are of you.In the first photograph I took of you on a July 28, you are not yet a year old and strapped into the black Jeep stroller that handled the curbs and gray crunch of gravel on our early morning walks. You are looking down at something - eyes new,
Against Certainty (opens the original)
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Dear friends,What is meaning-making in poetry? And how does it differ from a poem as something “of meaning made”? How can humor, faith, and the ultimate hope in “apocatastasis, that final restoration of all things,” work its way into your bones through a particular set of poems or most of all, through life itself?Today, I’m touched to share answers to these questions and more with poet, friend, and brother-in-Christ, Scott Cairns. His newest collection of poems, Against
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