by Leeana Tankersley | Dec 4, 2011 | Home Page
We’ve been utterly resuscitated by Steve’s parents’ nearly month-long visit. We were in need of extra hands, energy, company, familiarity. And they showed up with all of that in large and generous doses. Showing them around our lives here has been meaningful to me....
by Leeana Tankersley | Oct 16, 2011 | Home Page
A care package from my Growth Group back in San Diego has arrived just in time. Jamie masterminded the whole thing—have I mentioned what an incredibly generous friend she is to me?—and I’m in awe of how loved we are. The package includes: Notes from the girls—some on...
by Leeana Tankersley | Oct 13, 2011 | Home Page
I listen to Christmas music year around. Not constantly or anything. Just a little here and there, all year long. I’m not sure why. Perhaps because I am a melancholy, and the message of Christmas is so incredibly poignant, so tragically beautiful, so achingly humble...
by Leeana Tankersley | Sep 19, 2011 | Home Page
Thinking about home making today. Seven of our thirteen crates of belongings have arrived from the States to date. And the most random assortment therein, might I add. The bottom part of the leather rocking chair but not the back. The books but not the bookcase. The...
by Leeana Tankersley | Sep 6, 2011 | Home Page
I must secretly long for life to be less dimensional than it really is because I’m almost always caught off guard by the paradoxes of life, the complexity, the way it doubles back on itself and gives you mourning and dancing in the very same moment. How beauty and...
by Leeana Tankersley | Aug 25, 2011 | Home Page
Feeling a bit raw and teary these last couple of days. I’m wanting to make peace with all my emotions surrounding this huge transition and allow myself the space to just let it unfold as it will. But it’s hard to do that sometimes, isn’t it. It’s hard to feel...