Take care of your memories, for you can not relive them.
Bob Dylan
I reviewed 2022 as I wrote our Christmas letter and thought about the year that is passing and the memories I will carry forward from it.
Continue reading “Thursday thoughts”Take care of your memories, for you can not relive them.
Bob Dylan
I reviewed 2022 as I wrote our Christmas letter and thought about the year that is passing and the memories I will carry forward from it.
Continue reading “Thursday thoughts”I feel incredibly blessed to have many walking trails right outside our back door and through The Gateway. Even when we lived in the city I sought out the nature walks along the river. It grounds me even if the trail is hard slugging (think tall tall grasses or deep deep snow) or hard to find (mostly cow and deer trails and sometimes they disappear). I love to take my littles on a walk and they love to go. There is always something new to see even, when one walks the same area regularly, if observant and mindful. Plus it seems I sort out a lot of mental headspace when I walk.
Continue reading “Trailing it…”Yep it was a wild Wednesday. Although technically it hasn’t been confined to Wednesday. It’s been going on now for a while. Reading between the lines in Smoke and Mirrors I was obviously ready to try something “wild”. What was I thinking?
Continue reading “Wild Wednesday”And so it begins but I am hopeful that with some planning it will have a better outcome. Not a passive hope but one I have put some thought into.
Continue reading “And so it begins…”I wanted to make a fancy daily journal but didn’t find the items I had been looking for. So I went old school. Like as basic as it gets as I don’t even any gold stars like we got at school.
Continue reading “Old school indeed”I ate an apple today. It was cold, crisp and slightly sweet. Not at all like the apples of my childhood lunch box where they were warm and soft. The number of times I carried the same apple to and from school is probably fairly high. A work conversation from two school lunch packing dad’s let me know that this sort of thing is still going on. But back to my apple.
Continue reading “An Apple a day…”It’s arriving, in small flashes. At first I thought it was just spring. You know – more daily sunshine hours and the worst of the cold is gone although lots of snow remains. Perhaps it’s planting a few seeds that will grow up to be tomatoes & other nummy things in a few months. Might be the return to fairly decent sleeps with less back pain and therefore I am less testy/irritable/grumpy out of sorts. But here’s the thing. I think it’s actually hope. Showing up in small flashes. In tiny little ways that kindle more hope. Some very concrete ways and some more the glimmer in the distance. I’ll take it on this roller coaster journey called life.
The pale colours near the horizon give way above to the fading indigo. Dawn creeps across the sky. The yard lights, which dot the valley to the east, a steady spot on a quiet morning.
I have quite a little stack of books on the trunk by my chair right now. Just not quite enough hours to read them all but I am slowly working my way through them. There is a reason it’s slow going.
Continue reading “Loads on the shelf”I’ve been “lucky”. The starring role has always evaded me and the supporting role, while not comfortable at all, is where I have experience.
Continue reading “It’s ok not to be ok…”Author, Baker, Sunrise Chaser
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