For Eric
When one lives a spiritual life, the emotions seem only one cm away, just as the light of Spirit is just one cm from conscious thought. In the glimmer of a thought, I can be...
aiming to refit into service.. the well-loved and broken.. using beautiful patches
When one lives a spiritual life, the emotions seem only one cm away, just as the light of Spirit is just one cm from conscious thought. In the glimmer of a thought, I can be...
Happy Imbolc! It is the time of the Spring Festival and with the new moon last weekend the New Year (the Year of the Rat!) in China as well for many other peoples around China.....
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...