Farewell to January

February 2, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

(For Bushboy’s Last on the Card January – camera and iPhone – no editing)

VJ’s Weekly Challenge: repercussions

February 1, 2021.Reading time 3 minutes.

Mommy disappears sometimes. No one talks about it. At least not to me. The first time it happened, we were moving to the new house. I was almost five, and Dad said I was big enough to help him take boxes. My sisters came after school, but no Mom. Aunt came and helped us get […]

Amaryllis

January 28, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Amaryllis for Cee’s Flower of the Day

Ows

January 27, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Cow, window, and willow for Cee’s Midweek Madness challenge: things ending in W.

VJ’s Weekly Challenge: Threes

January 25, 2021.Reading time 1 minute.

InsurrectionInaugurationExhalation A beginning, a middle, an end (of sorts). This week, let’s see how succinctly we can sum up a situation using only three words. Or, if you need more, make it three times three: Snow squalls blindroads lack definitionhearth provides contentment. Or, if you are more inclined towards images than words, tell a story […]

Industry, Water, and Sky

January 21, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

For Cee’s Midweek Madness

Patterns In nature

January 20, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: patterns in nature

VJ’s Weekly Challenge: The other side

January 18, 2021.Reading time 2 minutes.

Picture a stage; empty except for two chairs. Now picture yourself, seated, in one of those chairs. Just you facing an empty chair. If you are familiar with the Gestalt practice, you know where this is going. In dream study, I’ve learned that all aspects of a dream can be representative of self. Visualizing the […]

Winter Blue With Clouds

January 16, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Hammad Rais’ Weekend Sky

Iconic

January 15, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Icons for CalmKate’s Friday Fun – Icons. Featured image is a red cardinal in the snow. Second to me stands for shopping Canadian.

Dear Child

I know a little girl,whose hair in ringletsfalls, unkempt from lackof brushing; who standswhen she should be sitting;who laughs with defiance whenchallenged, her dark eyes gleamingwith mischief; who holds her chin uphigh and stamps her feet, arms foldedin protest when she does not get her way. I see that little girl,have watched her play,with a […]

Re-de-fine-d

Ask me how I’m doingand I’ll say “fine”, notbecause I’m actually fine,but because “fine” is the onlysocially acceptable response. If I said that I have been lyinghere, for three hours now,willing my body to move,that would elicit unsolicitedadvice and tarnish my “fine”. I’d berate myself for breakingmy promise not to moan,knowing that complainingprovokes a compulsive […]