Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?- Mary Oliver
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?- Mary Oliver
Welcome to The Quiet Holler — a resting place for second chapters and slower days.
Once, my life moved to the cadence of courtrooms and deadlines.
Now I listen for gentler things — wind threading through the trees, a creek whispering over stone, the hush of morning fog settling in the valley.
This is a place of remembering —
of kin and land and the stories that echo in these hills.
I’ve returned to the mountains that raised my ancestors, to soil stitched with memory, to seasons that offer their own steady prayer.
Here, I am learning to go slowly.
To trade urgency for presence.
To let the ordinary be holy.
Chop wood. Carry water. Live in the quiet.
Welcome, friends.
Here you’ll find the heart of The Quiet Holler — reflections, family histories, and mountain tales gathered from quiet mornings and well-loved paths. These are the stories that remind us who we are and where we come from.
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I’m including this video of John O’Donohue reading For a New Beginning because his words echo the same truth that runs through these hills and through this work — that every turning, every loss, every homecoming is an invitation to begin again. It’s the sound of belonging finding its way back through the noise.
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