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:: week 8/52 ::
" Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone." {Lin Yutang} I've been listening to the...
Mar 5, 2024


:: week 7/52 ::
" Oh the joy of walking! ...the trance like, swimming, flying through the air; the current of sensations & ideas; & the slow, but fresh...
Mar 5, 2024


:: week 6/52 ::
" Inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly, and quietly, and all the...
Feb 13, 2024


:: week 5/52 ::
" I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor. It is something...
Feb 12, 2024


:: week 4/52 ::
" I will sit by the river's trembling edge and look at the water-lilies, broad and bright, which lit the oak that overhung the edge with...
Jan 31, 2024


:: week 2/52 ::
Winter has arrived and it's freezing! For the first time in years, I've had to skip the daily walk a few times this week. My kids...
Jan 17, 2024


:: week 1/52 ::
Happiest of New Years to you! I had no intention of the radio silence for so long. It's been so hard for me to summon the interest to sit...
Jan 16, 2024


:: snowflake lashes ~ a poem ::
Several years ago, I embarked on a poetry writing journey. Each morning, I would wake early, pull out my notebook and scribble lines...
Dec 12, 2023


:: autumnal greetings... ::
" Autumn is my season, dear. It is, after all, the season of the soul." {Virginia Woolf} If you've been around here for very long, you'll...
Sep 29, 2023


:: August days... ::
what glorious days these were. dappled light. crisp mornings. trees laden with the lustre of ripening fruit. air lingering with whispers...
Sep 5, 2023


:: joyous expectation ::
" Today I live in the joyous expectation of the good." {Ernest Holmes} This past week I celebrated my 50th birthday. A joyous milestone,...
Aug 16, 2023


:: July days... ::
" Ah, there is nothing like staying at home for real comfort." {Jane Austen} July passed by in a whirlwind of so much goodness. We have...
Aug 4, 2023


:: May days... ::
" It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning. A painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless,...
Jun 15, 2023


:: dancing & shimmering ::
" Ivy had always cherished books for the stillness they allowed in a world that valued fast, unforgiving progress regardless of the human...
Jun 12, 2023


:: heart of this moment... ::
" The camera unites my hands & mind. I am utterly absorbed, rapt, fully present and intensely alive. This alignment of body & senses in...
May 18, 2023


:: a great, silent mystery ::
" ...moreover, the walls of my castle are broken; the shadows are many, and the wind blows cold through the broken battlements and...
May 13, 2023


:: April days... ::
" ...everywhere birds building, flowers budding, leave thrusting - everything happy, and progressive and occupied." {The Wind in the...
May 1, 2023


:: the one o'clock hour ::
" There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea." ​ {Henry James} ​ ​ one...
Apr 8, 2023


:: March days... ::
" Like a tree, creative work has seasons. Part of the work is to know which season you're in & act accordingly. In winter, the tree looks...
Apr 6, 2023


:: hello, spring ::
" Spring returned. Birds followed ploughs. Stones were warmed by the sun. Rains and winds grew softer, and were fragranced with the...
Mar 20, 2023
nestled in quietude
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