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August 5, 2016July 7, 2017by Lisa R. Howeler

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Lisa R. Howeler

As a writer, photographer and former journalist, Lisa R. Howeler writes a little bit about everything on her blog Boondock Ramblings. She's a wife and a mother and enjoys a good John Wayne movie and a cozy Jan Karon book. She's also a freelance writer and photographer who is a contributor to various stock agencies, including Lightstock and Alamy. Her photography work focuses on documentary and photojournalism.

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I heard it before I saw it and knew at that moment I'd made a mistake letting my 4-year old jump from the couch to the metal barstool we'd never actually used at a bar since we didn't have one. I saw her hanging over the bottom rungs of the chair, now on its' side, like a limp rag doll, and yelled for my son to help because I figured that in his youth he could move faster. He wasn't there, though, and by the time I got to her she had lifted herself up and was standing with her hair in her face and her mouth open while she tried to scream, but no sound would come out. A bright red river of blood was streaming a path from her nose to her mouth and I wasn't sure if she had ripped her nose or her lip open. Always cool under pressure, I started to scream "Help me! Help me!" over and over, yelling for my son to call his dad at work. He, having been upstairs for what he'd hoped to be a relaxing visit to the bathroom, was a frazzled mess and stumbled to find one of our phones. "Grace. Face bleeding." He shouted into the phone and hung up. Somehow I had mentally slapped myself out of my hysteria and asked for a box of tissues, snatched one and held it against my daughter's nose, noting I had smeared blood above her eyebrow as I'd pulled her close for a hug and examination. I knew that in order for her to calm down that I had to calm down and suddenly I went into robot mode. Wipe face. Hold nose, ask what hurt and what she had hit. She said her nose and her ear so I examined both appendages and saw blood caked along the edge of the nose and the tip of it swelled some, but otherwise it seemed fine. The ear didn't have the gash I worried I would see.  My husband burst through the door a few minutes later and we checked her out together while she cried. A popsicle and a cartoon helped her calm down. A half an hour later she was in the kitchen twirling in circles next to the counter, an inch from smashing her face in again. "Excuse me. We've already had one bloody nose. Are you trying to get another one?" I asked. And that's when I felt it - another gray hair pop up on top of my head.

We’ve had a couple of days where it was warm enough to go outside and draw on the sidewalk and we were hopeful spring was coming. Today it is cold and raining and tomorrow we are set to get snow. In other words, it’s a normal Pennsylvania spring. . . . . . #letthemexplore #deeplyauthentic #freelancephotographer #lisahoweler #photojournalism #documentary #photographer_stories #thebeautifulreal #familydocumentary #cpcfeatureme #clickinmoms #hellostoryteller #blogger #documentyourdays #lifewellcaptured #yourlifeunscripted #documentaryphotographer #documentaryphoto #familydocumentary #fromwhereistand #pennsylvaniaphotographer #artofstorytelling_ig #calledtocreate #alamy #journeywithlight

Clean. We Christians know that the blood of Christ makes us clean. Or we are supposed to. So many of us think we must also be perfect but God never promised his sacrifice on the cross would make us perfect like Christ. What he did say is it would make us clean in His eyes. He sees us as he sees Christ when we confess our sins and claim Christ as our King but he knows we will fail, we will misstep, we will not be perfect like him. All we can do is journey toward that perfection, each day renewing our vow to be more like him while recognizing only through him can we be truly clean. . . . "Create in me a clean heart O God and renew a steadfast spirit within me." Psalm 51:10 . . . "If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world." CS Lewis. . . . . Welcome to our loop for Lent. We are creating weekly offerings of photographs, representations of the meditations of our hearts during each week of this Lenten season. Next up: @moments_by_mancuso #living_Lent_loop #letthemexplore #deeplyauthentic #freelancephotographer #lisahoweler #photojournalism #documentary #photographer_stories #thebeautifulreal #familydocumentary #cpcfeatureme #clickinmoms #hellostoryteller #blogger #documentyourdays #lifewellcaptured #yourlifeunscripted #documentaryphotographer #documentaryphoto #familydocumentary #fromwhereistand #pennsylvaniaphotographer #artofstorytelling_ig #calledtocreate #alamy #journeywithlight

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