Something happened earlier today that has left me a little shook. Everyone is fine and I will elaborate tomorrow. In the meantime, here are some flowers to admire and enjoy. Continue reading A Pause to Smell the Flowers

This one is for the wanderers. The ones who came before. The ones who took a chance, took a step in their own direction, followed their instincts, used their heart as a compass. Followed where it led them, found themselves at the water’s edge, kept right on walking straight into the sea. Continue reading For the Wanderers

His diminutive stature has always elevated him above the rest. Given him a place on “Mom’s” hip where he rises above the others. Looks down on them with disdain. Mocks them for their sturdiness, their heft, their inability to be easily lifted and hoisted and toted above the fracas and the fray. Today he gave himself even more of a promotion. Took the stairs to the landing. Leered down at the rest of us. Barked his orders to all who fell below his gaze. He ruled the kingdom for a brief moment, before I understood that he wanted to get … Continue reading Station Elevation

I found a place today. Off the beaten path. Down a dirt road paved with potholes and loose gravel, not marked on the map. I found a place made of mirror images. Of duplications. A place that folds in on its self. A place where water bends in equal parts ebb and flow and time stands still in the middle. A place where a heron skimming the water also skims the sky. A place where certainty and mystery both wait around the bend. A place unknown that calls you home. A place you enter lost and discover yourself found. Continue reading Through the Looking Glass

Today was my favorite kind of day. The kind of day where nature rages and pauses and rages some more. A day where lightning lashes the sky and wind hurls rain for the sole purpose of driving people inside and claiming the world for her own. Landscapers abandon lawns, leaving them half mowed. School kids scramble from class to class; bravado gone, heads bowed, books become shields; “Intro to Physics” deflecting and absorbing in formulaic ways not yet learned and far from mastered. Outdoor activity stops and the world goes silent except for the sound of water filtering through leaves … Continue reading Thunderstruck and Thankful

There is a certain shade….. It exists in Magnolia pods in mid September. But only for a few days. And only in the right light. My attempts to capture it have me vacillating between rose and peach; nectarine and salmon. Red is not quite right. Either is yellow. Orange is off just a bit. So is burgundy. The color I seek lies somewhere in the middle. In the middle of the chaos. In the pull between staying hidden and bursting forth. Somewhere between the shy dormant potential of life, and the bounding out of the seed, lies the calm, chaotic, … Continue reading Color Match

Facebook “Memories” reminded me, this morning, as my husband worked on staining and sealing some of the last bits of sanded flooring, that eight years ago today, we were celebrating, in our Arizona house, the installation of our new “wood” (laminate) flooring. How happy we were to be rid of the ancient carpet. To put distance between the old and welcome the new. To hire it done and move on. I wonder how we have found ourselves here again. Eight years later. Still excited over wood floors. Excited this time to bid farewell to the new and welcome back the … Continue reading Synchronicity

Tonight’s post is reminder that life is short. Find something in it that makes you as uncontrollably happy as a dog about to get a cookie. Continue reading Cookie Dance

I remember the bus evacuation drill.  Pulling up to the front of the school, finding the Principal standing there waiting for the buses could only mean one thing. Bus drill. My first grade heart hammered in desperation. The driver opened the hatch door at the back of the bus and jumped down to the parking lot below demonstrating the ease of exiting the vehicle in case of an emergency. In a neat and orderly fashion we were instructed to leave our items on the seat, line up in the aisle and when our turn came follow suit and jump. I … Continue reading I Remember