Siblings Archives - Soft In Hard Places https://lisapullenkent.com/category/siblings/ Musings on Mothering, Metamorphosis and More Wed, 05 Nov 2025 16:28:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://i0.wp.com/lisapullenkent.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/cropped-daisies-2485064_1920-1-2.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Siblings Archives - Soft In Hard Places https://lisapullenkent.com/category/siblings/ 32 32 52246340 Cancer in a COVID World https://lisapullenkent.com/cancer-in-a-covid-world/ https://lisapullenkent.com/cancer-in-a-covid-world/#comments Fri, 08 May 2020 20:29:55 +0000 http://lisapullenkent.com/?p=2456 Lately, my emotions are scrubbed up raw. Tender, like new skin. My nerve endings fire all the time. I feel everything without a buffer, as if there are no more desensitizing layers laid down with busy, distracted, numbing activity. Continue reading →

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]]> https://lisapullenkent.com/cancer-in-a-covid-world/feed/ 12 2456 Depth of Field https://lisapullenkent.com/depth-of-field/ https://lisapullenkent.com/depth-of-field/#respond Fri, 27 Jul 2018 00:05:09 +0000 http://lisapullenkent.com/?p=1948 It’s a gorgeous spring day on our 22 acres outside Fulton, a brocade of rolling green set against a periwinkle sky. It’s where I come to breathe. Today all four kids, their families, plus my dad and sister visiting from … Continue reading →

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]]> https://lisapullenkent.com/depth-of-field/feed/ 0 1948 To Believe or Not to Believe https://lisapullenkent.com/to-believe-or-not-to-believe/ https://lisapullenkent.com/to-believe-or-not-to-believe/#respond Wed, 17 Dec 2014 03:26:37 +0000 http://lisapullenkent.com/?p=1548 “Mom, is Santa real?” My youngest shouts this over the top of Katy Perry’s “Roar” playing on the radio as I’m dodging traffic on Providence Road, trying to get to gymnastics. I shouldn’t be surprised that questions of this magnitude … Continue reading →

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]]> https://lisapullenkent.com/to-believe-or-not-to-believe/feed/ 0 1548 Just Like That https://lisapullenkent.com/just-like-that/ https://lisapullenkent.com/just-like-that/#respond Sun, 05 Jan 2014 02:40:50 +0000 http://lisapullenkent.com/?p=980 Aaaaaaand just like that, Christmas is over.  The preparation, the anticipation, the actualization; come and gone for another year.  My beautiful live tree adorned in sparkling red and gold is dead, morphed into an endearing Dr. Suess caricature; its pliant … Continue reading →

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]]> https://lisapullenkent.com/just-like-that/feed/ 0 980 The Only Way Out is Through https://lisapullenkent.com/the-only-way-out-is-through/ https://lisapullenkent.com/the-only-way-out-is-through/#comments Mon, 30 Sep 2013 05:29:01 +0000 http://lisapullenkent.com/?p=716 Grief lives in our house. Among the furniture, between the windows and the walls, it sits, thick and unmoving. Grief rides heavy on my chest. I can’t get a good, deep breath these days. It weighs down my husband’s shoulders and molds his features. Grief seeps into our nights of restless sleep and dreams of forgetting, of waking, and then remembering. Continue reading →

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]]> https://lisapullenkent.com/the-only-way-out-is-through/feed/ 16 716 Extinguish and Evolve https://lisapullenkent.com/extinguish-and-evolve/ https://lisapullenkent.com/extinguish-and-evolve/#respond Fri, 16 Aug 2013 00:52:47 +0000 http://lisapullenkent.com/?p=638 “Mom, do you have a pencil and paper I can have?” my daughter, Haley asked as we watched the ring-tailed lemurs leap from tree to tree at the San Francisco Zoo. “I need to write something down.” Our vacation this … Continue reading →

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]]> https://lisapullenkent.com/extinguish-and-evolve/feed/ 0 638 Unsung, Unstrung https://lisapullenkent.com/unsung-unstrung/ https://lisapullenkent.com/unsung-unstrung/#respond Fri, 15 Feb 2013 09:39:01 +0000 http://lisapullenkent.com/?p=189 I don’t want to work I want to bang on my drum all day Todd Rundgren Captain Higgle’s ‘Rainbow Ship’ made its maiden voyage in my living room last weekend.  Constructed from an enormous cardboard TV box and every kind … Continue reading →

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]]> https://lisapullenkent.com/unsung-unstrung/feed/ 0 189 Holding Space https://lisapullenkent.com/holding-space/ https://lisapullenkent.com/holding-space/#respond Mon, 10 Dec 2012 03:33:13 +0000 http://lisapullenkent.com/?p=82 I'm flying over New Mexico on my way to Phoenix. Peering through the airplane’s small window, I take in the vastness of the red rocks below. I’m going home. To the funeral of my brother’s son. Continue reading →

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]]> https://lisapullenkent.com/holding-space/feed/ 0 82 In the Love Place https://lisapullenkent.com/in-the-love-place/ https://lisapullenkent.com/in-the-love-place/#respond Wed, 10 Oct 2012 03:41:46 +0000 http://lisapullenkent.com/?p=89 And so lying underneath those stormy skies She’d say, oh, I know the sun must set to rise. Paradise by Coldplay ~For Richard, Heidi and Gabriel~ It was Sunday afternoon. The weekend that seemed to stretch out enticingly before me … Continue reading →

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]]> https://lisapullenkent.com/in-the-love-place/feed/ 0 89 Light Through the Aperture https://lisapullenkent.com/light-through-the-aperture/ https://lisapullenkent.com/light-through-the-aperture/#respond Wed, 15 Aug 2012 09:32:10 +0000 http://lisapullenkent.com/?p=181 I took a quiz once to define my priorities in life, listing the three possessions I would save if my house was on fire. The answer was the same then as it is now; family photos are numero uno on … Continue reading →

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