Tag: mindfulness

• Vacation Ends Early: A Lesson from a Teacup and a Wild Flower

  

  I picked a vacation week but it will do better next time as I take the start of it more seriously, and I have ended this one a day early; tagging posts, “vacation time” missed the point, along with shuffling ‘round and ‘round every thing of mine online…At one point, my phone fully died at […]

  08/08/2022 7:29 pm

  antique, creative writing prompt, fun, garden, herbs, memoir, memoir stories, mindfulness, my memoir stories, my photography, narrative, peeko, plays, poets, rumi, tea, teatime

• Wind-flown

  

  I learned a new word, I think it was wind-sewn; or maybe wind-sown?, or even wind-turned, and I am all windswept or windblown along with these flowers. I don’t know; I like them all anyway…the little red flowers and leaflets and versions of this word… As for the pieces of my novel in progress and […]

  08/01/2022 1:23 pm

  boston, friendship, garden, home, leaving space, literary salon we keep, lovingkindness, meditative, memoir, memoir stories, metta, mindfulness, my photography, poetic, self portraits, soulmates, taking flight, vacation time

• Peeko’s Fiction Pick and Photo Shoot

  

  photos Jun 11, ’22 evening I am reading at a slow, meditative pace the novel, Queen Hereafter by Susan Fraser King set in Scotland in 1000 AD. I hadn’t seen many historical fiction novels set at this time or place. My cat Peeko (shown above) does no tricks; he poses his own way in these. […]

  06/12/2022 9:17 am

  21st century, beauty, books, catholic, classical music, creative process, english, english literature, fun, home, interior design, library, love, lovingkindness, medieval era, meditation, meditative, memoir, memoir stories, mindfulness, moon, morningtime, music, my photography, narrative, nature, night, novels, peeko, philosophy, poetic, scotland, soulmates, spirituality, susan fraser king, taize, uplifting

• On the Pulse of Morning by Maya Angelou

  

  On the Pulse of Morning by Maya Angelou A Rock, A River, A TreeHosts to species long since departed,Marked the mastodon,The dinosaur, who left dried tokensOf their sojourn hereOn our planet floor,Any broad alarm of their hastening doomIs lost in the gloom of dust and ages. But today, the Rock cries out to us, clearly, […]

  05/30/2022 1:58 pm

  20th century, angels, audio poetry, dreams, garden, gratitude, home, hope, inspiring, longing, love, lovingkindness, maya angelou, meditate, meditation, mindfulness, missouri, morningtime, nature, north carolina, philosophy, poetry, poets, spirituality, wellness