Last night I sat on the summer warmed stone stairs at the front of our house and waited as the evening changed colour. Yesterday, I published my first novel. It feels like a long road when I say that out loud. This story has taken a long while. Not that long to write – but […]
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Beware your heroes You may become them And the heroes I like Never lived an easy life Watch your admiration Where it drifts Who it casts Because the people I admire Never lived an easy life Watch your discipline and discernment Strive to make them right Because the things that I discarded Did not make […]
I awoke worried By a fiend of my brain Figment of imagination It cast no shadow as I turned on the light Nor ever will These things which make us fret Toss and turn Tumbling heartbeats in our sleep Are not real To reach out a hand is to smite a ghost The only head […]
We hold ourselves to impossible standards sometimes
I’ve never seen a bird Lose a feather to molting And continue to carry it So why do we? Wedgetails and kites in a kettle above my house.
Today’s practice I always sign off on my Reveries newsletters with “and it’s all just practice” because it is. Lately I’ve been practicing with the drone, and also with creating videos to use for our business and just for fun for myself as well. I’m not that good but each time I practice I learn […]
The cloud was like a dragon It terrified me I flipped it into a flower And now I am free Thoughts come and go We don’t have to construe We can let them be clouds And allow them to move Freely
The small ant struggles beneath the carcasses of crumb it carries I can barely see it’s tiny legs beneath Relentlessly it marches The crumb sways I hold my breath in sympathy And I feel like that is Christmas this year All the plans Preparations The heavy burden it turns into “Drop it, it’s not worth […]
Some people keep their lives private. Some of us are wired to connect Neither choice is wrong And people who judge Forget People who share Choose what they share And when Not for attention, not for applause but because energy wants to move. When something lights me up, my instinct is to pass the spark […]
