The snow came down in the night and continues to fall the trees take on an adornment of lovely frosty white fluff my morning is touched by the kindness of a friend and my first wedge of panetonne (seems criminal…
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‘Tis the holiday season, and I’ve gotten myself into a bit of a funk too many grey days, I suppose too much stuff, too busy too much to do just not enough time to read and to write and…
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And so the snow arrives, making everything look quite lovely soft and fresh outside and I wonder if I should go out and shovel this time of year, I don’t get to see my husband as much as I’d like…
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It is a simple thing, and a wonderful thing an easy thing and sometimes, you might think a difficult thing often it’s a little thing that feels like a very large thing this thing called kindness that should, I believe…
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This morning, I am in a mood. In all honesty, I could feel it coming on, last weekend I said to my husband “I am a woman on the edge”, in my effort to give him fair warning Lay low…
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Awaken from sleep, by a cat stand off outside my bedroom door against my will, I get up and negotiate peace talks and a parting of ways with my foot early morning, quiet sleepy house sunshine breaking through clouds first…
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I don’t always get to sit and share coffee with my love maybe a couple of times a week and when I do it is always he, who fills me up when I am firmly ensconced in a good book…
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Today begins, as many my day off, sitting to morning coffee with my husband, he with the paper me with a book an ad comes on the radio and a woman YEEEEEEELLLLLLLSSSSSSS disturbing the soothing Philharmonic Orchestra and the gentle…
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Yesterday morning I attended the Remembrance Day ceremonies in Ottawa, as I always do – which is to say I stand in my living room in front of the TV. (for some reason I always stand, in ‘prayer pose’ for…
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And so, as warned a large blanket of white descended in the night it’s cold and it’s wet reluctantly, I suppose now it really is time to put my gardens to rest as the sun streams in my window just…
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