All About The Scenery

March 17, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

It’s the beauty of this place that drew us here. For Nancy Merrill’s A Photo a Week Challenge: All about the scenery.

A Treasured Moment

March 16, 2021.Reading time 1 minute.

Winter of 2018. I am just regaining my legs after three years bedbound. Ric, forever the problem solver, proposes that we put wheels on the bedroom and drive south. Doctors write me a report to accompany our journey, and we head out in November. It’s a struggle at first and I’m doubting my ability to […]

VJ’s Weekly Challenge: Describe but don’t reveal

March 15, 2021.Reading time 1 minute.

Post a poem, prose, art, photograph, or other that illustrates but doesn’t reveal the subject. (Don’t forget to link back here.) Here’s an example: A Friend Indeed Friend, you guidemy brain-fogged,somnambulist limbs –like a mindless automaton;I follow, barely registeringmovement – grateful fordeliverance into thefullness of day. Once, I abhorredyour consistency,your stifling repetition,found your dependencymind-numbing, soulless […]

Pink Ribbons in the Sky

March 14, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

For Weekend Sky

Kitchen Nooks

March 12, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Things found in a kitchen

Orange!

March 11, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

For Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge: orange

4 O’clock is Tea Time

March 10, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

For Nancy Merrill’s Photo a Week Challenge: take a new photo. A glimpse of my kitchen.

Winter Light

March 9, 2021.Reading time 1 minute.

Lens-Artists Photo Challenge this week is natural light. Featured image is early morning sun on a frosty landscape. Below, the light flooding in the window overexposes the image. Can you see the woodpecker I was trying to capture? Here the daylight was just perfect to capture the contrast of colours: Light breaking through the clouds […]

VJ’s Weekly Challenge: scam/ con/ catfish

March 8, 2021.Reading time 1 minute.

Hello pretty lady, want to chat? No, just here to play the game. Where are you from? I don’t reply. I’ve downloaded the Words with Friends app, hoping to improve my mind. Seems every other opponent is just here looking for a mate. Do people usually meets partners on this site? I messaged one man. […]

Day turning Into Evening

March 7, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

For Weekend Sky

Of Trauma Born

Goodbyes tarnishfaith, like ashesscattered My heart grows dismissal,craves a balm of connectionseeks quiet harbour Remind me what it feels like to be safebreath nurturing life,love a rhythmic flow In meditationI reach for peaceimagine salvation But this wayward chaosunrestrainedcements me in doubt Tainted intentionsI lift up to the Universea tempest without hope My soul incubates malicea […]

Hawk (haiku)

Relevance of Story

Stories have power. Parents, teachers, public speakers, and therapists understand that the secret to engaging an audience or connecting with others is through illustration: storytelling. I see it in the eyes of the my grandchildren, who love to hear tales of family history. I’ve seen in the eyes of students, when recognition and understanding light […]