This morning I was out walking when I saw a feather moving strangely along the path An ant was carrying the feather aloft and making astonishingly fast progress In comparison to the tiny ant, the feather looked large and unwieldy, difficult to carry Yet it was not, the ant was perfectly capable of carrying the […]
Conversation is a harmony to pay close attention to fault lines like dead notes in the middle of a tune the silence arises where velvet meets wood and there is no music As the key turns mute and no amount of playing can cover the mistake as the score returns again and again to that […]
Worry is a kind of prayer Or so I’ve come to realise I thought it was a lack of faith And perhaps it is, if it’s not directed anywhere My worry has always been directed to God And I believe it has always found its mark Because there is very little that I have worried […]
Our path is buried beneath layers of brambles, old rubbish And the wind blown detritus of years spent learning what was not for us Not of us Every day I sweep anew Asking Is this mine? And the way appears Shining clearly But it’s only ten feet wide And ten feet deep So I have […]
When my younger son was in grade three or four he told me about a project he needed to do for school. Me, being a crafter, was instantly inspired and together we bought cardboard and new coloured markers and set about printing out pictures and googling and finding information together. It was so much fun, […]
To know how to live Don’t ask humans Ask the stars I wish I knew them Many are dead and already gone And yet their light continues on Perhaps in that fact Is the kernel of truth Live so what you leave burns forward too Our bodies are fragile and have to die But who […]
I just found a new podcast and I am so damn enthusiastic that I tell people who would never in a million years be interested in it – to listen. So to prevent me annoying the people in my life with my obscure enthusiasms. I thought, “oh hey, I have a blog, I will annoy […]
I wish I had never developed this thing Now it’s grown so big It is difficult to get rid of I wish when it first entered my heart At the very start I had the wisdom back then to drop it I’ve been feeding it now For twenty-five years It’s heavy It’s big And it […]
Yesterday I was listening to a podcast (how many of my blog posts begin from listening to a good podcast? Plenty because we draw inspiration from around us) with the author of the blog 1000 Awesome Things, who went on to compile his blog into a book which became, like his blog – a best […]
The brain is a chaotic place full of thoughts that trigger emotions that can lead to actions and reactions (or even a sort of paralysis of inaction) Which is when it is a good time to sit write and place a pin in problems create a crime scene From which to begin to sketch a […]
