Up Close
I want to become intimatewith every nook and cranny study each aspect of your contoursappreciate personal nuances learn to love and respect you,from the inside out. (For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Up close and macro)
Read MoreAuthor: VJ
Permission to write, paint, and imagine are the gifts I gave myself when chronic illness hit - a fair exchange: being for doing. Relevance is an attitude. Humour essential.
A Pine Cone Un-pocketed
Another day, I would have pocketed this gem, and gathered a few more, with dreams of painting them gold for Christmas along with the grandchildren – laughter and silliness filling the air. This year, I will leave it be, except for the photograph. The Christmas decorating goes on without us. We are chasing the golden […]
Read MoreChoosing Life
Buying time –resetting the dial,deviating from the norm… a healing place, here we go again,600 miles from home,recharging batteries… this might have beenan un-lived life. (My challenge this week is to make poetry from previous post titles. For this one, I chose to select only the titles that related to our recent journey.)
Read MoreSeed Pods
We release our seedspray for their deliverance –mourn the emptiness. (For Cee’s FOTD.)
Read MoreRecharging Batteries
Our car battery keeps draining, and it seems to be a metaphor for our trip southward. After three days of travel, we arrive in Lufkin, Texas where we take some time to organize and clean the inside of the motor home, and sleep. Travelling can be exhausting. Monday morning we head out early for […]
Read MoreShrivelled
Wrung out, yet alive –Autumn berries cling to life,and I resonate. (For Cee’s FOTD. Day 2 of travel, and I am feeling the effects.)
Read MoreHappiness is…
… every day that I’m able to get out of bed,and even better, get out of the house… …a river nearby, and a camera with whichto capture the glorious gifts of nature… …the love that flows between generations,the wicked freedom of being a grandparent… … the blessing of travel, and the discoverythat enables ongoing learning…. […]
Read MoreMighty Oak Leaf
Oak leaf, of mighty,even in falling maintains fight –stand out brilliance. (For Cee’s FOTD. We are headed south and have found Autumn again.)
Read MoreV.J.’s Weekly Challenge #26: Titles
In the late 1980’s, I began to study the psychology of dream interpretation as offered by our local university. One of the exercises our professor recommended when doing dream work, was to give each recorded dream a title, and then periodically list those titles, in order, to elicit new understanding. The assumption behind the exercise […]
Read MoreWho’s a Chicken?
It’s twenty-two degrees celsius here in Lufkin, Texas, where we have stopped for a couple of nights to catch our bearings. Camera in hand, I’ve decided to wander the property, hoping to catch the ducks in the pond by the entrance to the KOA. The ducks are not in residence but I had noticed […]
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One Woman's Quest II 