Tag: Carol Lynn Pearson

Mother-hunger

By Dayna Patterson Dayna Patterson is a writer, editor, textile artist, macro photographer, amateur fungophile, and Thea-curious recovering Mormon. Find her at daynapatterson.com. As the camera zooms out to capture the last scene—a paved road winding through Switzerland’s rolling green—I feel myself about to break. We’re sitting on the bed in pajamas, me and my …

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What Is Struggling to Be Born?

By Carol Lynn Pearson I wrote a little poem, and often I found myself reading it over the phone to women who called me needing to share a heavy burden. LABOR You have come in Like a wounded animal That crawls into a log To die. Now Do not think me Unfeeling. It’s just that …

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Why I Stay

By Carol Lynn Pearson YEARS AGO WHEN my husband Gerald and I made the outrageous decision to self-publish my poems, I wrote this simple piece that became the title poem of one of the books:   A WIDENING VIEW When my eye first opened Behind the viewfinder, There, in closeup, Was a flower— The only …

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The Family Forum: An Introduction to Quantum Parenting

By Michael Farnworth Law and Love in the Family Obedience is the first law of heaven. The way we interpret this aphorism—one of the most famous in Mormonism—says a lot about our parenting style. The aphorism is based on D&C 130:20–21: “There is a law, irrevocably decreed in heaven before the foundations of this world, …

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Letters to the Editor: Issue 163

Still on the Plains What a lovely surprise to see a short piece from No More Goodbyes printed as “An Olive Leaf” in issue 162. By way of synchronicity, the mail carrier who brought the magazine today took with him a copy of No More Goodbyes that I had signed and placed on my mailbox …

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