Archive - Considered Days

Every night, this late spring and early summer, we have watched the fireflies.

Jul 2 •

Johannah Blackman

March 2025

My son collects treasures.

Mar 21 •

Johannah Blackman

February 2025

The sparkle of snow caught by a breeze on a sunny day is a special thing.

Feb 21 •

Johannah Blackman

January 2025

As someone who squeezes writing into random, odd moments, it is rare that I share pieces here with the type of frequency between the last post and this…

Jan 20 •

Johannah Blackman

My son has been studying fire.

Jan 18 •

Johannah Blackman

December 2024

The Quiet Invitation

After the verdant green of the summer and the burst of reds and oranges in early fall, the days of late autumn slip in with a quiet, calm grace.

Dec 6, 2024 •

Johannah Blackman

November 2024

What if we understood that we can’t wait for perfection to be delivered, that we must work to retain our agency to shape the future, to keep it from the…

Nov 2, 2024 •

Johannah Blackman

October 2024

If my writing returns to this complexity time and again, it’s in a desire to make sense of it all, to capture something that cannot be fully grasped, to…

Oct 3, 2024 •

Johannah Blackman

February 2024

Words and soft hearts and where the words fail

I stand near a street corner as the rain starts to softly fall.

Feb 2, 2024 •

Johannah Blackman

January 2024

For times like these

Maybe we are made for times like these, I thought to myself. Maybe this dance of delight and tenderness is exactly what is needed. We don’t look away…

Jan 13, 2024 •

Johannah Blackman

Before I had children, I didn’t think too much about time’s passage. I was thirsty for the next day, the next experience. I chased life and filled every…

Jan 6, 2024 •

Johannah Blackman

December 2023

Life with weight

My son cries out in the middle of the night.

Dec 14, 2023 •

Johannah Blackman

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