Offerings

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Day in the Life

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Maggie Shackelford

Offerings

Storytelling Sessions

Day in the Life

Threshold Collection

Through the Seasons

Sliding Scale Offerings

maggie shackelford

June 13, 2019

Sol // Postpartum

maggie shackelford

June 13, 2019

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Always looking for that invisible yet visible plane of connection between parent and child. Look at these mirrored faces and the palpable love between them!

Musings and questions from a most likely skipped nap time -
I have dozens of prompts I am longing to write and to follow where they lead. Half written thoughts and not yet realized epiphanies seemingly always just out of reach. They circle my

It is a heavy thing to bring life into the world. Because with it walks hand and hand - death. Each new life brings with it their eventual death. A mind blowing and heart stopping reality that we often ignore.
And the same is echoed in the t

“i have this productivity anxiety
that everyone else is working harder than me
and i’m going to be left behind
cause i’m not working fast enough
long enough
and i’m wasting my time

It's happened with both of my children.
Right around their second birthday I feel as though I suddenly break through the surface of the water gasping for air and my feet quite miraculously find their way to semi solid ground again.

Meeting for the first time.

Mud kitchen tea time.

A childhood of magic. ✨🌈

sup·port
/səˈpôrt/

verb
1. bear all or part of the weight of; hold up.

Similar:
hold up
bear
carry
prop up
keep up
bolster up
brace
shore up
underpin
buttress
reinforce

noun
1.
a thing that bears the weight of something or keeps it up

April.
Bloodroot. Dreams feeling far away. The Hermit. But you know, never alone. Sunburn and a buckle love affair. Experimentation. New ink for 30 years. Change of plans. Visitor center games of chase. A sister on the threshold, waiting - blooming -

When we are constantly forced face to face with our failure to protect our most vulnerable, when we are gripped with despair over the murders of our loved ones, when we are tempted to succumb to the numbness of believing things can never change - may

share
/SHer/
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
noun
1.
a part or portion of a larger amount which is divided among a number of people, or to which a number of people contribute.
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Similar:
portion
part
division
bit
quota
allowance
ration
allocation
allotment
lot
mea

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