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Tag Archives: healing
Unravelling
“ We know that in September, we will wander through the warm winds of summer’s wreckage. We will welcome summer’s ghost.” – Henry Rollins It was on the news again, a reminder that these high summer nights were the best … Continue reading
Posted in blog, journaling, life, memoir, photography, travel
Tagged awe, balance, dark sky, ghosts, healing, high summer, hope, miracle, mystical, nature, Perseids meteor shower, September, sparkle, unravelling, wreckage
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Flashback
An unwanted visit to a forgotten childhood realm overcomes me as I walk upon a muddied path between bird-filled hedgerow and crumbling cement – the quiet softness of winter-dark broken by laboured breath running against time, hopping over fences and cutting … Continue reading
Foraging
We keep telling ourselves it isn’t going to happen, that our world will not be destroyed by a madman or two hurling threats and insults before picking up their toys. The image of what might be cuts too deep, leaving … Continue reading
Posted in poetry
Tagged beauty, faith, healing, hope, life, madmen, media, prayer, redemption, resurrection, seed thoughts, truth, weapons, words, world
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Rise
“ The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.” – Zen Saying A false fall is beginning to make itself known as I walk beneath a shower of gently falling rain-starved leaves, catching sight of … Continue reading
Illusion
I knew the scar was coming and after three opinions, the surgeon was chosen with care, this one less cavalier, instilling a quiet hope that I might still recognize the face in the mirror. As the shiny scalpel cut away … Continue reading
Unsettled
“ The outside is the only place we can truly be inside the world.” – Daniel J. Rice The shrill call of a woodpecker to her babies in the cavity prone dead tree breaks the slumbering silence of a late spring … Continue reading
Posted in blog, journaling, life, memoir, travel
Tagged birdlife, dreaming, forest, garden, healing, joy, peace. balance, picnics, Railway Cafe, solitude, Spring, stanley park, Summer, walking, wildlife, writing
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Morning Thunder
“ It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.” – Frederick Douglass A rumble reverberating through the air woke me from a … Continue reading
Once Upon a Time
“ The world is a fairytale; we are it’s guardians.” – Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun It’s a rare, warm fall day – a day when the sun’s rays break through the whipped cream sky and entices one … Continue reading
Posted in blog, journaling, life, memoir, travel
Tagged art, blogging, Chihuly, fairytale, healing, life, love, nature, ROM (the Royal Ontario Museum), seasons, the American election, Toronto, Vancouver, wonder
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