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Tag: My Mother’s Garden

Mother’s Day in a Daughter’s Garden

May 9, 2025 Joann Claypoole Home, Inspiration

To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.   ~ Maya Angelou The inheritance I inherited my mother’s love of nature

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Memories of Mom’s Garden and Her Never-ending Love

May 13, 2022 Joann Claypoole Culture, Home, Inspiration

Mom’s garden, sown with love… Her love reminds me of a garden; ever lovely, growing, and alive. Born and raised in New York City, the feisty redhead sprang into action the day tulips and daffodils

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The warmth of winter and all its wonders

January 10, 2020 Joann Claypoole Culture, Home, Inspiration

Stories by the fireside… We didn’t have a fireplace in our New York City apartment, although my dad continued his fireside storytelling tradition throughout the winter months—minus the crackling fire of course. I remember many

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The Most Glorious Christmas Day

December 13, 2019 Joann Claypoole Culture, Home, Inspiration

December 2019 ~ Central Florida. Most northerners know winter takes on a whole new meaning in Florida. There’s no snow. No sleet. No winter coats and hats—and sometimes no temps below hot. That means we

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Where He Leads Me

October 11, 2019 Joann Claypoole Culture, Home, Inspiration

Consider the called… With blind trust, goosebumps, and heart-stopping moments, a motley crew faced obstacles and their worst fears along the way to lifelong friendships and brotherhood. Jesus had called them onward to feed multitudes

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My Mother’s Garden

May 10, 2019 Joann Claypoole Culture, Home, Inspiration

A redhead with two green thumbs? Born and raised in New York City, a feisty redhead sprung into action the day after tulips and daffodils poked their heads up after a long winter’s slumber. Small

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The Mystery of Nature’s Peaceful Song

April 12, 2019 Joann Claypoole Culture, Home, Inspiration

Nature’s call A screech owl’s trills, calls, and hoots might calm the weary traveler, like the lone Whitetail who forages in the forest near my cabin. I press my face against the glass slider to

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Ghosts of White Winters Past

January 11, 2019 Joann Claypoole Culture, Home, Inspiration

Winter, 1969. New York City A blizzard’s eerie silence overshadowed the distant honking and revving engines from the usual Saturday night car races. I remember my dad‘s contagious laugh echoing through our apartment hallway after

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God Is Not an Infidel: He Provides for His Own – Claim This Promise Today!

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