Archive - hillary mcfarland

i am not a wise mother.

I hope I am becoming a wiser one.

Mar 6 •

January 2025

healing doesn't come with a warning label.

It's vulnerable, too. The most vulnerable thing, because what happens next? What is there after joy?

Jan 1 •

December 2024

2025 begins in 3 days or less, and I am lost somewhere back in October of last year, trying to make sense of how quickly life can change and how hard…

Dec 30, 2024 •

September 2024

I canceled my son's birthday party this year.

Sep 14, 2024 •

August 2024

what a musician taught me about excellence.

I think of artists and entrepreneurs I admire. How they have acquired the clarity and discipline and loving ruthlessness needed to whittle down their…

Aug 3, 2024 •

July 2024

dusting off my denim jumper.

When you always feel other and different, you learn to cope by being other and different on purpose.

Jul 1, 2024 •

June 2024

September 2023

beauty as a way of being.

The beauty we behold here, and the beauty we make, is but a foreshadowing of what is to come.

Sep 8, 2023 •

August 2023

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