Ladybird mindfulness, and frazzles
I’ve been a bit quiet lately. Not contacting folks or going out much. In the meantime, I’m doing just fine here, our heat works well, we have a lot of blankets on our beds, lots...
aiming to refit into service.. the well-loved and broken.. using beautiful patches
I’ve been a bit quiet lately. Not contacting folks or going out much. In the meantime, I’m doing just fine here, our heat works well, we have a lot of blankets on our beds, lots...
when things are not going my way, I change my current situation or surroundings somehow whether figuratively physically or mentally one day I’ll dance, go out, or rest sometimes sink into calming music rearrange one...
Well, it’s time for an update. I’ve been sinking into my days and allowing whatever needs to come up, to surface, taking it easy. Dealing with the important and urgent and letting everything else slide...
I’m learning to manage my anxiety. Baby steps, really. It’s happening slowly, without being focused on anxiety, per se. One area I’m working on: finding new things to do when I’m tired and have what...
Many things are happening, and yet it seems my progress is slow. Maybe you’re feeling this way too. And I’m feeling very deeply the subtle changes of the season. The moon is about to be...
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...
Pushing edges this morning. After an early med appointment, sitting in a busy coffee shop. Minding my own business. Sinking all anxiety and symptomatic pain into my work. Breath by breath, stitch by stitch. ❤️
This summer has been a time of input. It wasn’t my over-arching intention, but on the other side now, that’s what happened. Beginning with my months-long preparation for a week’s visit to my immediate family...
Still knitting. Instead of the fine and super soft, off-white alpaca, I’ve decided to switch to a slightly heavier weight llama-merino blend in lovely light natural and a medium brown. It’s not quite as luxurious...
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...
Today, as in these past weeks, I am working on myself. Today I am working on Receiving. It feels shameful to me, sometimes, that I myself, in the midst of so much privilege, that I...
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...
People who suffer from social anxiety actually do try hard to connect with others. Sometimes it takes a while to muster the courage, and then when they have the courage sometimes only a small peep...
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...
The seemingly instant Spring weather this week on the West Coast Canada, along with the planetary changes (equinox, super full moon… not to forget Uranus is in Taurus now, Mercury (!), Neptune swimmingly close by,...