. . . and to you this day . . .

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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“Now is the winter of our discontent” …   these are the words stomping their noisy boots through my head today.  Across and back, and clamouring in my ears. And I am in want of a stillness and quiet. I don’t…
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The morning is quiet when I wake up I have had a bit of a fitful sleep my husband has gone fishing and so part of my bed, (part of me) is feeling empty as I am waking, I think…
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.. and of further note, even on this grey cool damp November day, the delicate blush on my lovely Iceberg rose is not to be missed be still my heart ♥

Once again I find myself consumed by a book that is at once swallowing me whole and leaving bruises on my skin the cruelty and devastation of fellow humans on a people and their history as well as the lasting…
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