Define and Design 2016, Week Forty-nine
“There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.” ~Alan Cohen December 2 Creativity: Writing Gratitude: Resolutions to a few difficulties, Amazon movies Joy:...
View ArticleDefine and Design 2016, Week Fifty
Sometimes there are so many options I don’t know which way to go. It is then I quiet myself and listen to my inner voice. December 9 Creativity: Quilting Gratitude: Socks, music, time alone, Joy:...
View ArticleDefine and Design 2016, Week Fifty-one
When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in...
View ArticleDefine and Design 2016, Week Fifty-two
December 23 Creativity: Coordinating schedules and activities Gratitude: Lunch and shopping with family…an absolutely fabulous day and night with the men in my life! I am so much enjoying having this...
View ArticleHolding Space
Breath. Yours. Mine. Collectively, ours. It may be the first for one and the last for another. In between we hold space. We breathe for someone who cannot. We support the life as it becomes all it was...
View ArticleReturn of the Water Witch’s Daughter
The Water Witch’s Daughter is returning after an extended hiatus. I’ve experienced a time of learning and personal growth. As with growth there is change. My interests have always varied, but now even...
View ArticleLet Go and Move On
Let go of old belief systems. You know, the things ingrained in your brain that hold you back or pin you down. You know what I’m talking about. It might be a family superstition, a religious dogma, an...
View ArticleHonoring the Path
The journey is always before you…waiting for you to choose the road, to take that first step, to follow a path of love. No one promises it is an easy path. It is often fraught with resistance. We tend...
View ArticleAnd Then There are Words…
Words or action? Action isn’t necessarily words, but words are always action, written or spoken. There are times we hold them back, choke on them. The timing might be wrong, or things are better left...
View ArticleFlight of a Gentle Soul
We are the ones who walk softly. We are on a journey to peace. We are searching for an inner calmness and harmonious relationships with others. We don’t ruffle feathers. We’ve learned when to walk away...
View ArticleThe Gift
Embrace your knowing. Do not doubt its validity. This wisdom is a blessing. Messages of the deep ride the rhythms of your soul and settle in your heart. Feel the movement. Listen to how it resonates....
View ArticleThe Sacred Self
While life is a physical journey, it is foremost a spiritual one. We are each in search of our own true nature. We long to feel the divinity within and around us, yet we tend to get caught up in the...
View ArticleWishing You A Blessed 2020
Often we pick a word or focus for the year. The year plays itself out and in retrospect we find our yearly theme was not at all what we chose as our focus. I don’t remember what I chose the last two...
View ArticleFinding Grace Among the Ruins
I enter this day with gratitude. I feel incredibly blessed to sit here in my own silence and listen to the steady pour of rain as it cleanses and nourishes the earth. It soothes my soul amongst the...
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The Spice of Life
The world seems to be in chaos. Don’t let it take you with it. It’s a time to delve deep, to reclaim the spice within…the essence of who you are. Look for truth. Be discerning. Seek your inner wisdom....
View ArticleThe Great Mystery
Today I’ve decided to share the last poem I posted on my poetry blog. This was posted in September 2017….Oh, I still write poetry, just haven’t been sharing. Anyway, this I hold close to my heart for...
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River Reflections
Water is the one substance from which the earth can conceal nothing; it sucks out its innermost secrets and brings them to our very lips. — (Jean Giraudoux, The Madwomen of Chaillot) Sitting on a...
View ArticleRiver Sings a Song of Grace
This morning the river sings strongly, her voice echoing through my bones. My body knows this flow, and my heart the beat from which she moves. This grace starts from underground springs and knows how...
View ArticleAnswering Our Own Questions
It was a beautiful, crisp morning on the river. Everything moved at its own speed, each in control of only its actions. It made me reflect on my own journey, a quest for escaping chaos. I struggled for...
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Just Be
Dont look forward. Don’t look back. Just be. Like the honey locust, just be…simple, beautiful, divinely fragrant, and uniquely you.
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