Come walk with me.
Some things are easier to talk about while you're walking.
Around this farm, ordinary things have a way of teaching us something. A broken gate. An empty basket. A field waiting for another spring.
Maybe you'll recognize a little of your own story along the way.
What brought you here today?
We all come to the gate carrying something.
You don't have to explain it all. Just start with what feels closest today.
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I've lost something I loved.
For the heart learning to carry love and loss together. -
I'm learning who I can trust.
For the heart learning that a gate is not a wall. -
Life didn't go according to plan.
For seasons that look nothing like the ones we imagined. -
I'm trying to figure out what comes next.
For the field that hasn't shown you what will grow there yet.
Every field has a story.
Some seasons leave us with empty baskets. Some leave us standing at a broken gate. And some ask us to plant again before we know what will grow.
Farmer Willow Stories are written for seasons like these.
A story can change the way we see the field.
The field remains the same. But time passes, seasons change, and we find ourselves farther down the fence line, looking at the field from a different place. From there, we may begin to see what we couldn't see before: why the broken gate needed mending, why an empty basket showed someone that Willow had come with room to share the weight of her grief, or what possibilities may be waiting in a field that once looked empty.
The Old Storyteller
I grew up believing every barn had a story to tell.
The barns have changed — different colors, different seasons, different kinds of hard — but the view from my side of the barn has always taught me something. Slowly, the way farm lessons tend to come. Not all at once, but worked in, like compost into tired soil.
Faith. Loss. Patience. The strange mercy of starting over.
Every barn has a door that is either closing on a season that's ended or opening to the beginning of a new season of planting. Either way, every season holds a harvest of its own.
Farmer Willow Books
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Monster Be Gone 2nd edition
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The Spaghetti That Traveled
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Willow’s Heart: Stories, Reflections & Journal Pages for Healing
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