to step outside…
It comes in a wave, there’s the moment when you stand outside looking up at the sky grey on one side, brightest blue on the other the breeze picks up a little then a lot the trees are heavily swayed…
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. . . and to you this day . . .
words, lyrics, can openers and worms …
Today’s disclaimer: the opinions in the following are entirely my own, they are not meant to entice, enrage or accuse.. We each have our own stories and versions as such…. I read once in a memoir of Nuala O’Faolain, “that…
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and if you are open …
Sometimes it is necessary to just sit still and let your joy come to you some days it’s all I’ve got even on the days when just one brief bit of joy seems improbable impossible maybe even unlikely I know…
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to always remaining a beautiful sopping sponge
This morning after a read of my book, I listen to a Ted talk by the inimitable Anne Lamott: 12 Truths I learned from life and writing. I love Ted talks, of all kinds, I could easily while away the…
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to the wisdom of toads
This is a true story in which sunshine, my lovely husband and a little James Taylor manage to save me once again. I can feel myself thinning not so much as to say I may be losing weight but rather,…
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Nowhere else…
“The faster we run, the more determined is the Universe to slow us down. The more embedded our methods of self-distraction, the more agitating the truth-aches calling us back to authenticity. The more eagerly we race to the sky, the…
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it is to love…
to be a light on the path…
“When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else. Some decide that happiness and glee are the same thing, they are not. When we choose happiness we accept the responsibility to lighten the…
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small talk in larger spaces
Recently I was introduced to a young woman, by a friend, “She’s a writer, my friend says she writes beee-yoo-ti-full things” (my lovely friend, has had a bit to drink) “Oh yeah, says the young woman clearly unimpressed, whatd’you write?”…
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mirrors and light…
I don’t spend a lot of time with mirrors not the usual kind any way I suppose some days, there are things you’d rather not see extra little lines and creases time’s tiny little footprints making their tracks across your…
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