
when bad news is good news
The weather. That topic. It has been strange lately. The forecast was for 3 inches of rain. Did it mention high winds? Shall we say HIGH winds. And LOTS of rain. This is fall. Dry season. So the rivers flooded.…

The weather. That topic. It has been strange lately. The forecast was for 3 inches of rain. Did it mention high winds? Shall we say HIGH winds. And LOTS of rain. This is fall. Dry season. So the rivers flooded.…

Look closely. Can you see those last few leaves just clinging to the ends of branches? If you could look at that tree again tomorrow, they’d be gone. Last glimpse. That’s what we love about nature. The cycles. Those leaves…

A human life is the most complex narrative of all: it has many layers of events which embrace outside behaviour and actions, the inner stream of the mind, the underworld of the unconscious, the soul, fantasy, dream and imagination. ~my…

(photos of this glorious time of year) You know, I don’t like all stories. I was just at the “transfer station” (dump) where there is cute little swap shop. I dropped off two books there: stories about people. They were…

Quiet. The lake is almost still. I love the lake when it’s still. Why is it so difficult for me to be still? Even slow down? I love to move. I love to be impressed by “what gets done”. Looking…

I don’t feel good – I have this kind of really lousy chest thing going on; so I used that as an excuse to go into full-blown worry. “This could be the end” kind of ridiculousness. Oh yes. Thank goodness…

I was so thrilled that I got such an early start on my day – cloth on the hill just soaked with dye. And then…. I hear in the not so distant range, this high-pitched “beep – beep – beep”!…

I have my ideas about the color of water. The water that I know. Water that I remember. But what color is water, anyway? According to O’Donohue, Colour is the language of light. And water is more affected by light than…

Moving into fall. It’s the time of year where color is noticed. I mean noticed. Not that we aren’t super happy at the first shoot of green in the spring. Or delighted by the color of tulips, roses, peonies come…

Two days in a row. Polar opposites. How do we deal with unwanted, then – the so delicious? Yesterday was colored by news I wish I hadn’t read. That information was not good. And it made me wish I hadn’t…