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Category Archives: memoir
Daffodils Rising
“Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.” – Elizabeth Bowen Mid-January is just around the corner and there are still sparkling lights to catch my eye as well as a magical lone sapling … Continue reading
Posted in blog, journaling, life, memoir, photography
Tagged beauty, darkness, enjoy everything, flowers, forest, hope, joy, light, love, mindfulness, park, seasons, sparkle, wanders, winter
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Bench Series (Winter)
“Darkness is where the magic of moonlight lives.” – Unknown Before our part of the world became a winter wonderland, there were two days where I happily found myself – sitting at an outdoor table at the “cabin in the … Continue reading
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Tagged apple cider, beauty, benches, churro sticks, festive, friendship, love, magic, New Year, stanley park, storms, Vancouver, weather, winter, wonderland
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Wandering
“Listen! The wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves, we have had our summer evenings, now for October eves.” – Humbert Wolfe It’s the first day of autumn and after an early morning rain and atmospheric mist, … Continue reading
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Tagged atmospheric, Autumn, beauty, enchanting, gifts, grove, leaves, love, memories, nature, reading, sanctuary, storms, wandering, wild
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Golden Hour
“But in the midst of all that is, was or ever will be, there is a light that keeps shining, reaching us from far away.” – Sasha Sagan After an unexpected and very deadly heatwave that enveloped the West Coast … Continue reading
Posted in blog, journaling, life, memoir, photography, travel
Tagged air, art, beauty, city, climate change, golden hour, Granville Island Market, heat dome, Imagine Van Gogh, kites, local, patio, Summer, vagaries, Vancouver, writing
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Feed Your Soul
“Explore the earth, soak up her beauty, and let it feed your soul. Love her like your own, and then leave her be.” – April 2021 Alive magazine Deep verdant green and fragrant gardens draw me most days to paths … Continue reading
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Tagged art, beauty, beloved books, earth, feed your soul, joy, light, nature, normalcy, Pendulum Gallery, pleasure, Summer, tea, wanders, warmth, wonder
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But first, spring
“It is so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done.” – Matthew Arnold Tiny, barely there snowflakes lazily fell from the blurry grey … Continue reading
Wintering
“We are all treading the vanishing road of a song in the air, the vanishing road of the spring flowers and the winter snows, the vanishing roads of the winds and the streams, the vanishing road of beloved faces.” – … Continue reading
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Tagged beauty, flowers, forest, hawk, love, nostalgia, pandemic notes, reverie, seasons, senses, soul, wanders, winter tea, wintering, writing
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Siege
“ In winter, the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity.” – John Burroughs December has arrived in wreathes of fog and apricot … Continue reading
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Tagged beauty, community, Covid-19, dreams, Fleurs De Villes Noel, hope, kindness, light, musings, myth, New Year, seige, solo walks, winter, writing. walking
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