Percolating beneath the surface..
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...
aiming to refit into service.. the well-loved and broken.. using beautiful patches
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,...
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...