Here’s a little aside…a friend said to me once that she wondered how many kids had peed in the ocean pool that we were running in. I told her that whales pee in the ocean, so what should we care, there was bound to be pee in the water. Maybe that shouldn’t be an aside, I think that’s a good metaphor for life too!… Read More Succulent Serendipity in the Midst of the Ocean
I am seeking light, in myself and in the beauty of the world. And the light shines on a new wisdom about the sources of strength. Strength that comes from loving, from leaning, from learning. That endures hurt and joy, yearning and acceptance, hope and recognition. A different kind of strength designed not for surviving but for thriving.
Tiger. The words keep coming to me. “C’mon tiger”. And a slow rumbling that is a waiting roar builds within.… Read More The Thriving Tiger
But there will be no paying of the ferryman until he gets you from the beginning, through the middle and to the other side…the idea alone is not much of a journey and there is no destination until I try and set out. And how can there be capricious whims of fate when fate has been stalled? So I have been wondering about ways of really getting started.… Read More Don’t Pay the Ferryman: The Capricious Whims of Fate
first met my best friend when I was 8. We were in the Brownies together. But I was sports mad and when my sisters moved up to Girl Guides I decided to give it up as too many activities clashed with weekend sports commitments. I then next encountered my bestie when her mother became my 5th Grade teacher. Her father came into class to teach us all to knit. I thought they were a very liberated family. Catherine and I then went to the same high school. But it wasn’t until later in our schooling years that she “found me sleeping in an ancient history class” and we became very close… Read More What’s Your Beef? Liberation Pie
Instead I’ve thought about why it is that I have a knowing that I can be beyond Resistance and write creatively, where in recent years (okay, the recent past 20 years) I couldn’t or wouldn’t, or not very much and not with completion… Read More The Muse With A Poker Face
So Shakespeare used couplets, well I’m going one better and using triplets! Trios of facts. Starting with the findings of some research I did earlier. I interviewed some folk this afternoon at a select gathering of like minded people…okay, so I chatted to my two godsons as we queued for security at the airport! I asked them to share with me some interesting facts and here’s what they came up with:… Read More Pulp Me Up And Make Me Into Paper…It Might Be An Improvement
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