Christmas hats
For the past few months, I’ve been making hats. The first one was a beautiful hat, but when time came to size it, it was far too big. And I’ve already washed it. So, I...
aiming to refit into service.. the well-loved and broken.. using beautiful patches
For the past few months, I’ve been making hats. The first one was a beautiful hat, but when time came to size it, it was far too big. And I’ve already washed it. So, I...
My word for 2020 is Regulate. While I’m able to do so many more things this year, I’m doing and trying out so much. I confess it’s really hard to remember everything. I’m eager to...
As I lean into this Winter Solstice, I realize my dreams, my meditations now take me ever deeper. It seems right and easier to sink below the miasma and din, to a layer beneath, in...
Everyone seems to be raking leaves across the region.. Now that we have a few days of sunshine before it rains again. It’s late in the season for the trees to change colour and drop...
I am grateful because.. I love mornings. When my sister and I were young, my mother would come into the room we shared and with mischievous joy, Mom would sing the following verse as she...
Since 7am (when my “Do not disturb” setting turns off), my phone has been dinging with little love letters, happy birthday wishes, the most beautiful messages of love and desire. I am really happy! Thank...
Today, as I sit at my desk beneath the window of clear blue sky, I gently allow myself to drift towards gratitude. What am I grateful for? How can I be grateful for my own...
When cracked wide open, everything spills out An endless flowingness of pictures, mementos, vignettes, feelings The past is in crumpled pages on the floor, and yet New life emerges, and the violet needs watering Attempts...
Minding my own business here in my apartment smack in the middle of Vancouver proper… doing more, bit by bit. Last week, I spent a couple of hours at the local second hand store chain...
Lately I’ve been thinking about this feeling happy stuff, and how hard it must be for those people, so many people in our society, facing significant challenges and pain. People who find the magical opening...
Gratitude plays a huge role in my healing process. As I organize my yarns and play with my palettes and further my little needlework projects, I’m steeped in deep gratitude: for the abundance in my...
Slowly. Very slow morning today. Grateful. Taking time to slowly savour a few pages of Mary Oliver, so many beautiful words, images, feelings. Topping the list I think, is this line in her poem, Wild...
A few new things to report.. seem small but to me are huge, triumphant accomplishments. First, I can listen to music again. I’m not sure I’ve mentioned it but since my injury almost 2 years...
Living with what has become chronic pain and problems with brain function is extremely challenging, to state the obvious. Maybe the most difficult parts have been coming to terms with the nature of the problems...
Happy June! It’s time for an update on how things are going with my brain and recovery! I’m on an upswing, things have been bad and are now getting better, and I’m at a particularly...
The following letter was sent to a nutritional consultant requesting feedback on my diet. My aim was to get ideas on how to improve my diet within my unique constraints. It took a long time...