Yes

August 24, 2022.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Say ‘yes’ to opportunity:action is always preferable to inaction.Easier to change your mindonce you’ve accepted an opportunity,than it is to chase it once it has moved on. Image mine.

Here Comes the Sun

August 22, 2022.Reading time less than 1 minute.

For Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: Here comes the sun.

Children in Motion

August 19, 2022.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Backyard BBQs and picnics in the park – perfect ways to build community. The children benefit the most, I’d say. For Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: motion

Don’t Give Up

August 17, 2022.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Never give up on you:there will be times where you will feel like such a failureand that all is lost,just know that these are but passing momentsin the greater picture.Life goes on, and so will you –as long as you are alive, there is a purpose and place for you –trust it. Image mine

The Eight Year Road

August 15, 2022.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Moments

August 12, 2022.Reading time 1 minute.

The trips along the river have decreased, replaced by ongoing texts and emails. A family of cardinals, newly hatched, line our windowsills, their curiosity endearing, yet; my camera remains on the desk. My health has taken a plunge – not unexpected, but despairing. I’ve been locked away inside fighting the sludge. August the 23rd, our […]

Celebration

August 10, 2022.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Celebrate wins:you will excel, even surprising yourself at times;make sure you celebrate it. (Image mine)

Nature Inspires

August 7, 2022.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Photo worthy moments courtesy of Nature’s bounty. For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Reminds you of nature’s beauty.

Brief Update

August 5, 2022.Reading time 1 minute.

Five bikes – powered by two adults and three children – carried balloons, flowers, and packages across town, voices raised on repeat: ‘Happy birthday to you.” When townsfolk stopped to shout out: “Whose birthday?”, they replied: “VJ’s!” Our family of five Ukrainians have been settled in their own home since June 22, and remain a […]

Imperfection

August 3, 2022.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Discard the concept of perfection:choose to embrace vulnerabilityand imperfectionas fertile ground. (Image mine)

Crisis

How did undocumented –a civil infraction –reduce people to ‘bodies’? And how did empathy –observation and support –merit death by gunshot? When we stretch for explanations –to fit the violent rhetoric –are we too not complicit in crime? Red, blue, it’s all intolerable –the global stage is watching –a nation in rapid decline. “He’ll burn […]

Winter’s Ruse

Poet’s Quandry

IfI wereto writeevery dayfor onehundred days,would my soulbe purged ofthis malaise;is it a thingto be dredged,dragged up –twistedand tiedlike tatteredbed sheetsknottedtogether;is therea remedyfor thisscourge;or is thisan inherentrestlessness,a fiery bluespark of eternalangst ignitingpassion – a callto write? (Originally posted February, 2017. Image my own)