Jetstreams

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

For Weekend Sky

‘Night Sun

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

For Weekend Sky challenge

Stripes and Checks

January 26, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

For Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: stripes and checked

Practice Makes Permanent

January 26, 2020.Reading time 2 minutes.

“This is a lot of stuff to remember, Grandma!” Seven-year-old Sloane and I are making a Zentangle. She’d tried to copy my work on her own with no success, so I’m teaching her step by step. “That’s why we keep practicing.” “Practice makes permanent!” “Do you mean perfect?” “No permanent. That’s what my teacher says.” […]

V.J.’s Weekly Challenge #73: whole

November 18, 2019.Reading time 3 minutes.

Joseph was eighteen when I first met him, a hulk of man with dark eyes that always glanced away, and a permanent hunch, like a cowering animal. He didn’t communicate verbally, but with patience and a steadying touch, could type out his thoughts, if the mood struck him. Some days he would pace and flutter […]

Numbers

November 6, 2019.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge : things with numbers.

From the Back

August 7, 2019.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Cee challenges us the week to consider our subjects, in black and white, from the back. I find the pattern of a bird’s feathers is highlighted from behind. Caught these two riders as they road past in Arizona. Can’t get enough of these two lovelies. Had to include their sweet backs.

Big Little Blessings

June 20, 2019.Reading time 1 minute.

A 6:15 a.m. phone call changed my life: “Hello Grandma…it’s a girl!” There is no describing the thrill. I packed a hasty bag and drove the hundred kilometres in record time, scooping up that little bundle immediately on arrival. Her little tongue moved in and out rapidly as her gazed fixed on mine. I could […]

Three Times Blessed

May 23, 2019.Reading time 1 minute.

Recent upheaval has plummeted me into a dark space, where I am not willing to settle. Depression has followed me throughout life, and while I acknowledge it has a place, I am not willing to let it drive. I learned long ago that the only way for me to counter the clouds is to be […]

Feathers

May 15, 2019.Reading time less than 1 minute.

For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: feathers

Now That I Matter

The times I waited –restless and ragingdeliberately put on holddismissed, degraded, ignored. Why did I put up with that?Was I so afraid I’d lose it all?So uncertain about a future? How the children came to meneed in their eyes, little armsbegging to be embraced,and I too blinded to reach outfixated on the anger, powerless,immersed myself […]

Flowers and Rain (haiku)

Sun Certainty

Clouds bundleshift and foldcotton strata Trees huddleconfidence incommunity Emotions stackone on anotherco-mingling hues Beneath layersan eternal glowsun certainty. (First published April 2021. Image my own)