this is us…
The thing isI am not a very good housekeeperor actually I don’t believe this to be quite true,what I am not is a very neat and tidy housekeeperI just seem to find much more pleasurable ways to spend my timethan…
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Tag Archive: #livingmygratitude
a practice a day…
When it becomes a practice,(when it becomes mypractice)to see beautiful thingsto regularly look at things in lightand shadeto see everyday ordinary thingssimple thingsasbeautifulit quickly takes the place of nasty thingsof ugly thingsof spiteful thingsdirty politics and popular opinionsbecome big businessname…
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pleasanter things…
Today is a day to dopleasant things… and so it begins with not havingto go in to work, sleep a little laterand coffee togetherthen starting a new bookwhich from the opening lines, I know alreadyI will lovea message from a…
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to finding our feet…
You know August can sometimes feellike the cruelest month,even though it’s not got the harshnessof winterthe sometimes colourless, bleak and bitter coldthat will comeit just has a transitional feelof things about to changeof letting goof losingthat for some reason finds…
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captivating joy…
As to why I so often use #dontmissthis and #noticelife,yesterday in one small spot of various milkweed in my gardens, five monarch caterpillars,for me, instant amazing delightwhile this morning, not one is to be seenI’m sure they are still here,…
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to me with love…
The ridiculousness of romantic love is that one should hope to always be in itof it, or magically and continuouslyshoweredwith itthe idea that someone else should be so in tuned as to always knowexactlywhat it is we needwe as humans…
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ordinary everyday madness…
This morning first thing, I quite peacefully wander through wordsof someone I appreciate so very much, whose thoughts and feelingsmirror my own, in so many waysthis morning, I look to the light shining through tulipsand send a message of loveto…
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thoughts on sunshine…
This morning I am reading Moments of Seeing: Reflections from an Ordinary Life by Katrina Kenison, a book that I pre-ordered as soon as I knew of it, probably a Mother’s Day or Birthday gift to myself. When it arrived, …
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too much traffic…
My house you know,is rarely completelyquietand almost always toofullof stuff the goldfinch outside my windoware exactly the same colouras the buddingforsythia at times, I am perfect peaceand contentmentwhile also, uneasy & uncomfortable sometimes I am searching, seekingslightly unsuresometimes knowing, somewhat…
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not always shiny side up…
It is the time of year where I start to feel restlessanxious and worrisomespring starts to roll and life begins to moveat a pace, I feel trampledbymaybe it’s this moon business, maybe it’s just mea shift in hormones knocks me…
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