I am stood silentin between another, what’s the big dealconversationunwilling just now to step inor engage inthe what andthe whyas so often the world these daysfeelstooexhausting where flippancy and blatant unkindnessgrand selfcentred-ness, intentional belittling disguised as jokingat someone else’s expenseare…
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Last night, I leave my hockey teamto theirmiseryand instead ask my son, if he wants to watcha moviemy son, a devoted movie aficionadomakes the choiceand so, last night I finally watchRoberto Benigni’s Life is Beautifulit has been on my radar…
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From where I sit, I can seehigh up in the crab apple treea small feather blowing in the breezeas it quite activelycatchesthelightand my eye I wonder to myself about itstravelsand how it has come tolightjust here up through the branches,the…
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On Thursday, at the end of another hotwork dayI spend some timetrying to convince a gorgeous black swallowtail butterflythatI ampeace this beautiful being has found its wayunfortunatelyin to the greenhouse where I workwhere, I happen to know wella lot of…
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This morning,I am wondering how you are doingin the sort ofin-between of things sometimes the hardest partwhen the weight of it allsets intoa sandy bottomwhere complete body exhaustionsettles overand the brain, knowing of a grace-filledpeaceinstead feels kind offog Lovecaringpeacegriefguiltreliefrelease breathe…
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Morning, December 23rdthe fan in the bedroomabove the bedbeginsa tinysqueak… and I am awake with thoughtsofthingsto be accomplished tis the season of wondersnot least of allfor a Momand one whose feeble attemptswill always beto keep the magicin Christmas and this…
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Last week begins,anxiety highand I can feel it on the insideif I am stillit pullsand it churns like one of thosebingo things that tumbles the ballswith numbers on themit is worry for thingsunknownfor my kids, and for thingsIhaven’t donefor things…
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I haven’t yet said too muchabout itabout how absolutely, endearingly wonderfulit all wasright from starttofinish how the evening beforesomeone both lovely and kindwould come in to the gardenand say to me,oh my… I would never want to leaveand I would…
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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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