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Blurry: A Haiku

15 Jan 2023
I miss you most when I have something to tell you. It won’t be long now.
Photography

Picture of the Day – “Fishing for Dinner?”

7 Oct 20227 Oct 2022
I love this scene with the guys on the shore and sunlight pulling away on the water…
Self-Help Whispering

Little treasures – Are you my wand?

3 Oct 2022
I went in search of a wand. It’s a long story about a class I took over the weekend. Perhaps I’ll share about that on another day. I wanted the…
Photography

Picture of the Day – “Birds of a Feather”

7 Jun 20227 Jun 2022
I left for work a little early to capture a mental health moment for us! Aren’t these guys great? The rain has stopped for now. Warm, windy and gorgeous-looking… not…
Photography

Picture of the Day – “Singing Bowl”

4 May 2022
A gift from my mother that makes my heart sing… I could just sit here staring at it all day. That’s a kind of meditation, isn’t it?
Photography…

Picture of the Day – Tiny Sacred Spaces

13 Feb 2022
I cannot stress enough how important it is to create sacred space wherever you are! There was a time at work, not so long ago, that we were not allowed…
Photography

Picture of the Day – “Touch of Summer”

10 Dec 2021
All the snow melted! lol Soooo Ontario! I saw this lovely little cottage (tool shed, she shed, he shed, kids playhouse?) on my travels and snapped a shot. It makes…
Self-Help Whispering

2020: Year of Clarity – 2021: Year of _____?

5 Dec 20205 Dec 2020
Since beginning this blog in late 2017, I have chosen a word to focus on for the following year. 2018: Year of Nurture 2019: Year of Water 2020: Year of…
Photography

Picture of the Day -“Winter Splash”

5 Jan 2020
It's gloomy and cold but beautiful scenes can still be found!
Photography…

Picture of the Day – “Inuksuk”

12 Sep 2019
On my way to lunch with a dear friend yesterday, I stopped at a cemetery. You all know I LOVE the ambiance, history and beauty. I found this guy! The…
Photography…

Picture of the Day – “Familiar”

11 Sep 2019
She chose me. I passed her enclosure at the Humane Society and she got up and rubbed against the glass. She was huge and scared and beautiful. She called out…
Photography…

Picture of the day – “Flower Power”

7 Sep 2019
Photography…

A photo a day helps keep depression away!

5 Sep 2019
For the next little while - or forever! - I will be sharing a photo a day. Just because. Today's selection is called, "Picnic, anyone?" I love being by water…
From My Bookshelf

Toxic Parents – Emotional aftereffects

2 Sep 201916 Mar 2022
Trigger warning: Discussion of abuse. No details, no photos. Toxic Parents by Dr. Susan Forward has been patiently sitting on my shelf waiting for me to pick it up and write…
From My Bookshelf

Your Inner Beauty – Ladies Night!

2 Jul 20199 Oct 2019
Your Inner Beauty by Jill Freeman & Larry J. Freeman is so ancient that Amazon doesn't have a photo of it on their website. Well, that makes it sound like…
From My Bookshelf

New Beginnings – It’s time.

23 Apr 20199 Oct 2019
When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too. - Ann Morrow Lindbergh New Beginnings by Betty Jane Wylie has been sitting quietly on my…
From My Bookshelf

Perimenopause and Menopause – Ladies Night

3 Apr 201924 Feb 2021
Yes, today's books are about women ... but men, please don't go! (I say this because if there's one thing I know, it's that menopause vies with tampons to top…
Self-Help Whispering

How goes my “Year of Water”?

24 Mar 20195 Sep 2022
At the end of December, 2018, I decreed 2019 to be my Year of Water. I thought you might be wondering how it's going. Are you? Then, read on, McDuff!…
Self-Help Whispering

Remember this one? – Elf-help Books

7 Mar 20197 Mar 2019
Sometimes, you just need a tiny thing to feel better. These little books are written by different folks but are all illustrated by one folk: R. W. ALLEY. Elf-help books (Abbey…
From My Bookshelf

Healing Crystals and Gemstones – Healer or Amateur Geologist, you’ll like it!

25 Feb 20199 Oct 2019
My friend Bonney presented this book to me in the year I'd like to forget, 2014. I know this because she inscribed it: "To my gem of a friend"... and…
Self-Help Whispering

Living outside the box – I am an Official Empowered Empath

16 Feb 201917 Feb 2019
While this is my Year of Water it's also my year of stepping outside the box and doing stuff that scares me. I started with the seminar in December and…
Interviews

Interview – Kaden Ferretti: Friend, neighbor, and lighthouse

8 Feb 201911 Feb 2019
You first heard about my friend (and community-support-powerhouse) Kaden in this shameless teaser. Readers, I have shared so often that everyone you meet has something to teach you, if you…
From My Bookshelf

Toxic Friends – Falling to pieces

31 Jan 201920 Jul 2021
Men seem to kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it as glass and it goes to pieces. -Anne Morrow Lindbergh Toxic Friends…
From My Bookshelf

The Art of Possibility – It’s like music for all humankind

28 Jan 20199 Oct 2019
“I have a definition of success. For me, it's very simple. It's not about wealth and fame and power. It's about how many shining eyes I have around me.” ― Benjamin Zander…
From My Bookshelf

After the Ecstasy, the Laundry -A Modern Spiritual Journey

26 Jan 20199 Oct 2019
After the Ecstasy, the Laundry by Jack Kornfield is a book I'd never heard of and passed on the shelves at my fave thrift store a dozen times. For one…
Self-Help Whispering

Reviving Ophelia – Be everything, be nothing

25 Jan 2019
“Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts.”  “Girls struggles with mixed messages: Be beautiful,…
Self-Help Whispering

Remember this one? – Recovery of Your Inner Child

23 Jan 2019
Genius is childhood recaptured. – Charles Baudelaire I took the photo of the book in the featured photo askew because there’s a sale ticket stuck to the right corner. I…
From My Bookshelf

The Woman’s Comfort Book – It’s all about pleasure, baby!

8 Jan 201915 Sep 2021
You first heard about this book in this post. It always deserved a post of its own and I thought I'd written one. My mom reminded me that I hadn't.…
Self-Help Whispering

Hello, 2019!

1 Jan 20196 Sep 2022
Last year, I wrote a post just like this one... kind of. It's here, if you'd like to read it. In it, I shared my word for 2018: NURTURE. How…

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