Jan 13, 2021 | Speaking My Mind
the most important blog post? It is on the most important blog. Yours. Even if no one but you reads it. The blog you write each day is the blog you need the most. It’s a compass and a mirror, a chance to put a stake in the ground and refine your thoughts. And...
Apr 24, 2019 | Speaking My Mind
As I was looking back through the archives, this post caught my eye… it seems as if no matter how determined I am to make the self-care changes I need to make, I keep on making the same old mistakes… (edited to bring it up to date) the last couple of...
Jan 16, 2019 | Speaking My Mind
last year I took a break from being online Initially, it wasn’t intentional. The Boy and I started our gut rehab program in early January (all I can say is that gut die-off can be brutal), so my energy was focused elsewhere. Truth be told, though, I’d been...
Jan 11, 2017 | Speaking My Mind
“besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. the wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.” ~ Lin Yutang Life can be complicated. We’re all busy. Too much to do, too little time...
Nov 9, 2016 | Speaking My Mind
my life isn’t perfect There are messes. There are hard days, hard weeks actually. But in the middle of it all, there is also joy. And I’m savouring those moments because they all too quickly pass us by. To live a perfectly imperfect life means...
Jun 15, 2016 | Speaking My Mind
death and decay I’ve been watching this lone, tenacious apple for a few weeks now. It has held on, slowly shrivelling, while all the other apples on the tree let go to begin their return to the earth. Death and decay have been hovering in my field of vision for...