Capturing the essence of life through writing
We sometimes don’t notice the gifts we have or don’t give them their due. It is a beautiful and magical opportunity to watch and be a part of your own or someone else’s evolution in the care and feeding of a discovered gift. The journey is as much a part of the awe as are Read More …
May is coming to a close. The month has screamed by as if it had somewhere to be. Time is like that; well, at least, that is how we perceive or mark time. During this time, the weather hopped back and forth between winter, spring, and summer. The forecast for the rest of the month Read More …
The sun outside my window is traversing to its spring position. As we pass the Spring Equinox, additional light in the morning and evening prevails. Birds begin to warble louder and more persistent. Peepers join their chorus. Soon, others who return from their winter locales, will lend their voices to the awakening season. pay heed Read More …
We inch ever so lightly toward the new year. With Christmas behind me, my thoughts turn to those special moments just lived during the holidays and the joys shared with my “pod”, a strange word that has become a part of our vernacular in these times and is used to signify those we share our Read More …
As September ended, a chilled zephyr arrived, albeit a bit early. But as with all transitions, we adjust. So for now, as I write these words, I have returned inside to my studio; now just dreaming of the summer sunshine on my face and soul. offering…tea leaves conveywhat I can not The birds and their Read More …
August has been a brutal here in the northeast with record-breaking heat; a drought; an early tropical storm for which we received little rain; and, of course, the on-going COVID-19 pandemic. Not sure, if anyone could have predicted all this. 2020no one had a clear visionof what was to come And yet, as we struggle Read More …
The garden is flush with new bounty – flowers, vegetables, herbs – and the visitors that come with late Spring – a kaleidoscope of butterflies, songbirds, hummingbirds, and dragonflies. Still, I await the arrival of fireflies. Little “light fairies” that bring wonderment in the darkness illuminating micro bits of the night’s domain. I hadn’t noticed Read More …
Back in mid-March when we began this pandemic journey, I wrote a post titled “In These Times” that laid out some ideas I would use to return to self-care. One of those was to “see that Spring had awakened”. Living in the Northeast, Spring seems to have taken it’s time, as we drift back Read More …
I generally write every morning – journaling really. Taking that time to write a stream of consciousness with no editing and no judgement stretches my mind and soul releasing the cobwebs from overnight or the prior day and readies me for the tasks at hand. A few weeks ago, I stopped that practice. The news Read More …
These are interesting times. You may use a different word(s) to qualify them. I do too. Strange. Weird. Scary. Difficult. Depressing. New reality. No matter how you describe these days, like me, your anxiety may be heightened, you may be hyper-focused on the news around us, or wondering how we will survive or rise above Read More …
As I sit here writing in my studio, a light snow has begun to fall outside my window. The birds that frequent are flitting here and there scouring for seeds. They always seem busiest when the snow is falling, as if this may be the last food available. And yet, I always refill their feeding Read More …