December’s arrival tiptoes softly in laying down quietly on your doorstep and calmly waits for you to notice… much difficulty sleeping of late, bothered by unruly sinus congestion has me slightly panicking in the night trying to breathe now this morning seems to have plugged up one ear ugh! also,…
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My week began with the all too familiar internal toil of pushing through clouds trying hard not to destroy myself with chatter willingly drawing in, in gentle intentioned loving kindness words and familiar phrases to ease myself through and repeating the same for you end of week, my inbox fills…
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This morning I finish a book by a highly accomplished, much determined quite inspiring, creative woman written about a dark and difficult time in her life but coming out the other sidelovinglyand I finish it with that all familiar sigh… what is it you want in…
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I have what is known as a heart murmur, described to me as one valve smaller, and the need for the heart to pump a little bit more to get the blood through so essentially what I have is an extra heartbeat that…
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Boxes had been piling up for weeks or months really and by about ten o’clock this morning they were all gone my son moves out today or has done, I guess moving in with his longtime girlfriend finally, after a bit of pandemic interruption starting ‘grown-up’ life together which is wonderful and she is wonderful and…
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This morning I notice the return of the Juncos to my feeder, and this… “I wish you wouldn’t have called me a poet, now every morning I wake up and try to prove it.” blesses my day, of ways to begin in gratitude – commune with…
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Yesterday on a walk through the garden it occurs to me that I don’t much like October or really, I guess… it’s the season that gets to me the gardens start to look a bit haggard colours have dulled to brown and rotty not much new to spot on…
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To be there for someone in a time of loss to offer one love and support and kindness above all I think, kindness there is no taking away the profound emptiness of a light either slowly or suddenly diminished for a time there is no explaining…
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Some days I have the feeling, that the world outside my gate is turning way too fast, ya know or that whatever else is going on out there could just… stay away from me where I actually feel the need…
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Today my ode to a remarkable group of friends known as The Spa Girls, first may I begin with full disclosure, to say that I am not one of the Spa Girls although I do believe I know all or…
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