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Becoming

Fran Gardner

Go slow now. Take time, feel gratitude, forgive. Be authentic.

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Big trees. Really big trees.

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Three words

Sometimes I find a trio of words to write about. Today’s three words are mildly related. Why did I pick them? Because. Brio came to me in the shower and the other words followed.

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Fours on the Fourth

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Fireworks tonight

Every year I hang my flag quilt from our front porch on Main Street—not Wall Street!—in Portland, Ore. Fran Gardner photo

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Hot weather and rain

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Weather notes

“In case you haven’t heard, the heat wave here has soared to over 100 degrees Fahrenheit for days,” Gina DeVee writes from Paris on her Divine Living Substack. “Even though my apartment (thankfully) has air c...

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Neighborhood therapy

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Crow poem

In July 2023, I published a poem, Crow Convo, about how crows gather along Portland’s waterfront. It’s been awhile since I’ve seen crows gathering like that.

Crow, Singular

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Read like a child

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Get creative

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Anything will do. 
Make a meal, peel a carrot. 
Break out the candles,
Eat candy in bed.

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    Fran Gardner curates a sock drawer of ideas that don’t match. She salts them with photos and poems. Nothing is what you’d expect.

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