Drama without all the colour

September 8, 2023.Reading time less than 1 minute.

For Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: black and white or monochrome.

Creative Expression

September 6, 2023.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Acrylic Interlude

September 4, 2023.Reading time 1 minute.

Between hosting Ukrainians, and meeting with community members to ensure supports are in place, I take the odd pause to hide away in my art room. My son graciously converted our downstairs guest room into an art studio for me and gave me all his paints and canvases. It marked a new chapter in my […]

Which Way? Laneway

September 1, 2023.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Cee is now offering the Which Way challenge! These two laneways from last Fall caught my eye.

Miscommunication

August 30, 2023.Reading time less than 1 minute.

The desire to be understood is riddled with personal agendas. When both parties are grasping for that same reassurance, communication becomes a minefield. I prefer conflict avoidance, but recognize it only defers the pain (and often adds to it). No matter how empathetic, or compassionate I try to be, there are always those relationships where […]

Primarily perfect…

August 28, 2023.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Lens-Artists Photo challenge this week is primary colours – always eye-catching.

Priceless

August 25, 2023.Reading time less than 1 minute.

A baby brings so many things into perspective, especially the importance of love and connection. For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: MasterCard: There are some things money can’t buy.

Rocky Path

August 23, 2023.Reading time 1 minute.

Last time I was in the hospital, the admitting doctor asked me about a DNR (Do Not Resuscitate) order. “Have you had the opportunity to discuss it with a loved one?” she asked. “Of course. No heroic measures!” I emphasized. “I’ve spent the last ten years living with chronic disease; I have no aspiration to […]

They Never Saw Me Coming

August 21, 2023.Reading time less than 1 minute.

A few candid shots from a recent community picnic for Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: Faces in the crowd

Hot and Cold

August 18, 2023.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Hot enough for the corn to grow and definitely hot enough for two ice cream cones… For Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge: Hot and Cold

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 […]

Peace?

(Image my own)

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 […]