Snow’s Arrival

November 12, 2025.Reading time less than 1 minute.

The three and nine year olds don’t want to come in out of the snow. The parents are too cold to stay out – not yet attired properly. I feel my bones ache at the chill of it. How quickly our perceptions change, but isn’t that life? A bird’s eye view:

Colours

August 20, 2025.Reading time less than 1 minute.

There is something about summer and the full vibrancy of colours that makes me feel so alive. Haven’t had the energy to do much art, however, Summer’s artistry more than suffices.

You are brilliance

August 6, 2025.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Things I wish my younger self knew, but then again, if we knew, would we try so hard to shine? It’s the paradox of life, isn’t it? I watch my teenaged granddaughters struggle, and I want to lift them up, but I know that words aren’t enough. Letting them know I believe in them is […]

Spiral Dance

July 16, 2025.Reading time less than 1 minute.

My daughter and I are speaking again, and I am learning how generational trauma resurfaces – sometimes with a different face, and often with a new perspective. Quite the journey, this thing called life. (Image and words my own)

Making Space

June 4, 2025.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Multi-tasking becomes a compulsion. I escape quietude at all costs. The urgency that underlies my actions wants me to believe that time and opportunity are running out. Until I catch myself spinning and stop. Question the motivation. Realize the old pattern repeating. Breathe. Now making space for the universe to fill in the blanks.

Call the Home

May 7, 2025.Reading time 3 minutes.

“What do you have planned for when you’re older and less able, Mom? It would be good to have a plan documented…” This from a family group chat when I mentioned that my 95 year-old aunt had fallen and broken both legs. Although I’m 66, the addition of a disabling disease makes this question more […]

Drudgery or Discovery

April 30, 2025.Reading time 1 minute.

How do we face each day? What determines outlook? Is it personality or lived experience that colours perspective? Current circumstances have limited my range of activities, including those I do to distract myself. I forgive myself for any feelings of drudgery, and yet, despite ego’s self-pity, I find my natural curiosity pokes it nose into […]

Family Dinners

April 16, 2025.Reading time 1 minute.

In response to my middle daughter cutting off contact, and once I got past the hurt and humiliation, I decided that it is closeness, not distance, I want to harbour in my family. Hence the family dinners. Once a month, same Sunday, I invite our kids to a home cooked meal. My husband suggested that […]

Broadening my focus

February 26, 2025.Reading time 1 minute.

I was aiming for the bird, my fingers wrapped around the lens, ready to zoom in, when the scene spoke to me. “Sometimes”, I reminded myself, “you need to look at the larger picture.” The larger picture, in this case, was stunning, almost as if the sky had a message it didn’t want me to […]

Permission

February 5, 2025.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Wading through the muck of internalized blame, I stumble across a fault line, where the light breaks through. Old patterns are breaking up. My worth is not tied to how others feel, I realize. I am not the Queen of Everything. For the umpteenth time, I tell myself: I am enough. Permission granted to follow […]