Photo from my phone 2025 Deep grieving Of loves regret Of your past lives lost Of what you never had Of what you could have been The baby left to cry The innocent child The rebellious teen Looking for love in all the wrong places The parents that birthed you The land that held …
Tag: writing
THE SACRED BEAUTY OF AGING
Guess who? I DID NOT WRITE THIS BEAUTIFUL PIECE AND HAD IT PASSED ON TO ME. I THOUGHT IT WORTHY OF SHARING (and had permission). There is a story written on our skin. Not the Story of loss, as we were taught to believe. But the Story of becoming. The lines around our eyes are …
Retired life
"The Meaning of Life is to Find your Gift. The Purpose of Life is to Give it Away". Pablo Picasso Jumbled brain Time to sort my shit out again No sense of navigation Like a boat at sea Don’t want to drift along Aimlessly Be sucked into a vortex Of nothingness Like going …
Narrow it Down.
From God to Me #1 Image By Charles Yeager Being a neurodiverse creative type, my brain is often like an exploding firework, full of ideas then overwhelmed by the options, with the energy dissipating almost as rapidly as it emerged (this can be a Gemini thing too – so I may have a double helping).I …
Shedding Skins
Candlelight prayers NYE 2024 I sit on the cusp of the New Year and a New Moon, a time to reflect on the year passed and set intentions for the future. I sit on my porch, listening to the rain , comforted by it’s soft, persistent tapping on all it kisses yet longing for it …
“Meant-to-be” not easy
Dennistoun Track, Peel Forest, New Zealand I started the year with a goal of being more congruent, for my insides to match my outsides, a desire to speak my truth, honour my values and follow my heart, Now I am here, at my computer desiring to reconnect with you all. How do I oil the …
Your Mental and Emotional Warrant-of-Fitness #7 Gratitude
(A Warrant-of-Fitness is the New Zealand equivalent of an M.O.T. in the UK, being a certificate to say your vehicle is road worthy.) The benefits of gratitude have become more widely understood and appreciated in recent times. Research shows that simply expressing gratitude or having an attitude of gratitude actually changes our brain chemistry. It …
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Writers Dilemma
Write something every day To stay in the flow Is what they say. A verse, a poem A line or two You’ll be surprised What the Universe Will write through you. Turn up to the page Put pen to paper Do it now Instead of later. Don’t worry about it sounding silly A rhyme, a …
Words from the Lighthouse 