“Everywhere I go I’m asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don’t stifle enough of them. There’s many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.”― Flannery O’Connor Six summers ago, I began a personal writing project, just after starting my blog, that I labeled, “Fifty Life […]

A work in progress (a novel and a life)

“Softly the evening came with the sunset.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The images above and below are from some of our international travels. Above, I’ve featured evening hours in Scotland, China, Israel and France. Below, I’m sharing mornings in Angkor Wat (Cambodia), Dubrovnik, Africa and Petra (Jordan). “With the coming of daybreak, even the tiniest particles […]

Lens-Artists Challenge #356 – Quiet Hours

Saturday morning coffee is not a simple item that one wants. It is a crucial part of living that one needs to survive. A steaming cup with a bit of half and half is all that is necessary to continue down life’s path. Reaching for the half and half, a strange feeling came over […]

Stream of Consciousness Saturday – Prompt – Curl

Our vacation in Italy was a leisure trip, visiting three cities, Rome, Florence, and Venice, and spent three days in each. In stead of taking the tour bus, we took high-speed train from city to city. In my last post, I included our first two days in Rome. In this post, I continued with our […]

Italy – Rome and Florence

We awakened to a very rainy, windy and chilly day in Canmore, Alberta. The Three Sisters mountains weren’t very visible … … unless a wind gust provided a bit of clearance. Happy Saturday.

Misty Mountaintops

To everyone out there trying to keep going,Don’t look too far ahead, this day is all you need to partake in, right now.Take it one step at a time,remembering to find the sunlight and the beauty in each moment.Cast out the darkness and celebrate the light that isalways present when you open your eyes and […]

Sólo tenemos el momento ⌚⌛We only have the moment ⌚⌛

This morning, I asked my heart where it would like to be. On my sleeve for others to see or folded up tidy and neat. Tucked securely away, beating to my own rhythm without the world’s interference is tempting, my heart contemplated. In the warmth of your bosom that nurtured life—a miracle given, I could […]

Dressed for (a heart’s) success

Upon a hill, where grasses gleam,a golden hawk sat in day dream.Its neck turned sideways, eyes so wide,watching the wind and world collide. High above, on a slender tree,small chaffinch chirped so cheerfully.Rich orange neck and belly bright,soft feathers brushed with brown and white. “Good day,” the little bird did say,“I see you watching far […]

Flock Together

Even though the sky was a stunning canvas of vibrancy yesterday morning, my mind was in a funk. Worries flooded each thought, and each worry got stuck like gum under a school desk. But I had to get on with the day – first stop was the post office. I was happy to see that […]

A parking spot brings a smile!

by someone who just wanted a quiet life, a decent sandwich, and a planet that hadn’t completely lost the plot. So here I am, staring at a blank screen, attempting to string together a story, something, anything— but all I can think about is how worryingly uninspired I feel these days. Not because life has […]

Superman, Storms, and the Death of Common Sense