I look for beauty in the midst of chaos. Real life is messy and unpredictable. It is made up of highs and lows, seasons of peace and growth and seasons of tumult and challenge. It isn’t static or consistent. We can do our best to prepare for the difficult times and to skill-up our abilities […]
This is such a wonderful time of year! Everything is green again, there’s colour in the garden and being out of doors is a joy! The days are long and warm and the evenings are cool but pleasant. I always look forward to throwing open the windows and inviting the fresh air into the house. It’s
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Heraclitus, the Greek philosopher, said “Change is the only constant in life.” Many changes have taken place over the course of this year; I made a decision to change jobs, and then a couple of very dear special people passed away. Change is difficult, even when we plan on it, are excited about
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Mr Griffin and I were up early this morning. Feeling hopeful, we ventured out for a walk.The weather has been inclement for a while now; the cold, the wind, the snow and ice, … brr! It hasn’t been my cup of tea. But the sky was blue and the air was crisp, not frigid, so
I simply adore this time of year. Today was a grey, rainy day. Cool and wet. Rubber boots and sweater weather. I walked around my gardens first thing this morning, Griffin sniffing the perimeter as we went, my mug of coffee warming my hands and steaming fragrantly under my nose. Everything is changing. The flowers
Transformation. Change. Renewal. New beginnings. It’s that time of the year again: September is around the corner, Summer is coming to an end with Fall close at its heels. The garden is yielding its harvest now and it is up to each of us to honour the bounty it has gifted us with. That’s
You’ve just gotta love the simple joys in life.I look for them everyday and do my best to celebrate them when I do. The other day while chatting with my neighbors, Jim and Sandra, they casually mentioned that their Mulberry tree has “thousands of berries” and that the birds have been feasting. I could pick them
Thunder storms raged through last night and with them came a deluge of rain. The noise on the skylights throughout the house was incredible and the water that poured through the overwhelmed eavestroughs was absolutely torrential. Michael and I had planned to have supper in the gazebo but that was a wash… We hurried to
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It’s time for a new beginning. There are fresh starts all around us; new buds and blooms, new critters and little bugs, hopeful attitudes and bigger (masked) smiles. There is also fresh news to make you glad – we will slowly be emerging from our self-contained cocoons, getting ready to spread our wings wide as we
Over the course of this last year, my world has gotten smaller. When the Pandemic struck last March, I came home … and stayed. I had been traveling at the time and therefore needed to spend those first two weeks in isolation. I didn’t go anywhere or see anyone other than my husband, my boys and
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