The creative home of a flaneuse who wanders and looks to live life's whimsical possibilities
Saturday, December 30, 2023
The Turning of the Wheel
Monday, December 25, 2023
Under the Christmas Moon
"The light of the Christmas star to you. The warmth of home and hearth to you. The cheer and goodwill of friends to you.”
-Sherryl Woods
As I drove home with my sister we observed the almost full moon coming up. It was a day of family visits, calls to friends and good food. It was 17 years ago I started this blog. While a couple of years were missed, it has somehow found its way back to me each time I thought I had somehow lost it. Such is our lives. Each time we think the path is blocked and there is no way ahead a miracle of light occurs and we find our way out of darkness. This is my wish for the world. May our journey towards 2024 bring light into our troubled psyche and the balm of peace to our souls.
J.S. Bach, "Christmas Oratorio",
Thursday, December 21, 2023
Night into Light
“Here in the Northern Hemisphere, we celebrate the darkness as it is in its fullest influence. The once fertile forests are now bare and awaiting their rebirth. The surrounding shadows whispering to us of our natural-born powers. And the knowledge of a convergent awakening.”
-Dacha Avelin
Tonight brings the Winter Solstice, the longest night of the year. I just walked Teagan after dealing with several hours of working with clients to find light in the midst of the darkness. All around I found homes festooned with light, including my own. I looked up and saw the patterns of stars shining down. Being not to far from the airport, planes sailed overhead flashing their light against the darkness taking people to holiday destinations, carrying the hopes and fears for a holiday that might bring celebration and growth or the darkness of old patterns.
So far in this life journey I have made, I have been lucky enough to find I have always been able to travel out of the night into light. This is my hope for all that their journey's bring them to the knowledge that night will is necessary and will bring the rebirth into light.
Antiphony, "Solstice Carol":
Tuesday, December 19, 2023
Bringing Into Being
Sunday, December 17, 2023
And So This is Christmas
Friday, December 15, 2023
Moving On
After months of struggling with getting my blog back up and running. It happened! So much change. I'm no longer a California resident. I'm now in Arizona with my family and in a house. Doing therapy for people and finding a new journey.
Teagan is a joy and a blessing.
More to come.
Vince Guilardi Trio, A Charlie Brown Christmas:
Friday, April 14, 2023
And Changes Happen
It's been a blustery months since I was last here. I left my job of 17 years, fought the medical system to have a needed surgery and was to begin a job in telehealth shortly after I had the surgery, but suffered the fate of a bait and switch start up and am still in recovery, both from that and the surgery. I will not lie I came to the darkest edge I've been too in years. Through the support of family and friends, I'm emerging. And it reminded me no matter what stage we are in life, we are still changing. Most importantly we are not now who we were even moments ago.
So in the infamous words of George Harrison to life: "You've given me a wah-wah...". But I'm coming out of it with some major changes. I am not the thing I was.
George Harrison, "Wah-Wah":
Pondering on Photography
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looking out my window i see the moon peeking in wrapped with cloud scarf streamers of vibrant light
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I am heartbroken today for people around this country who just lost the fundamental right to make informed decisions about their own bodie...
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Presume not that I am the thing I was. William Shakespeare It's been a blustery months since I was l...