Tagged: gratitude

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...

Happy Solstice

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...

Late start to Autumn

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...

Waking up

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...

An ode to my messy apartment

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...

Socializing as therapy

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...

Magical opening.. to feeling happy

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...

I am grateful…

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...

Savouring, slowly…

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...

Re-creation

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...