Three Gifts

June 14, 2023.Reading time less than 1 minute.

(Excerpt from Acceptance and Illness, June 2017)

What Saved You?

June 7, 2023.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Water

May 17, 2023.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Watercolour image mine.

Acceptance holds discovery

May 10, 2023.Reading time less than 1 minute.

What do you quest after?

April 19, 2023.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Note: Should read “to lift us higher”. Ugh.

Muskrat

April 14, 2023.Reading time 1 minute.

Went to the river to clear my mind. It’s been a rough couple of weeks helping Ukrainians. Some, feeling they can’t make it in Canada, or missing family too much, have gone home. Worse than that, we uncovered human trafficking. One employment trafficking, and another procuring young women for the sex trade. I have felt […]

Let…

March 22, 2023.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Arrogance

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

Discovery

February 22, 2023.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Blame

February 15, 2023.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Where Are The Dogs?

Contemplating risk –a reunion with a former selflooking for an exit When did I become a snakerestrained?When did I become persona non grata? I slither between storiesconvince myself I can flydistraction a ruse I have big cat energyoverstepping boundariessocially adverse A faulty jeweldreaming of abundance but there’s a dragon to disarm My mother’s burden on my […]

Turning (tanka)

Mother

When I had a mothermy hair would cascadein curls of auburn perfectiona red velvet bow to accentuate the wave And I’d wear my bestnewly sewn frockwith lace at the neckand fishnet stockingsand patent Mary Janes And the girls giggling with delightwould skip hand-in-handto the school promand the boys shyly perchedagainst the back wall would wonderhow […]