.“Healing comes in wavesand maybe todaythe wave hits the rocksand that’s okay,that’s okay, darlingyou are still healingyou are still healing.”~ Ijeoma Umebinyuo...where have i been, you ask? physiotherapy. exercising. journaling. knitting. reading. resting. but mostly, i have been healing, allowing it to come in its own time.

where have i been, you ask? quietly seeking myself, i reply. you see, it has been like this : there's so much i want to change, but i have control only over myself and my own reactions. this has not been an easy journey. i went inward and discovered i…

at the beginning of december, as i prepared for an arthroplasty implant, i began the online sessions the cozy quiet, wanting to simply slow it all down, body and soul and most importantly, mind. "i'm done with always feeling like i must explain myself" i quietly stated to no one but me. i cannot begin…

i've been pretty quiet around this space. i have been studying how to let go. how to sink into this quiet season.  i find my peace and joy in the outdoors. you know, out where the snow falls, snow on snow on snow. out where i can tromp through the woods and the…

    i know myself well. sometimes i must sit with a feeling and sink into it, let it settle into my soul, until i am ready to let go.  it's that whole angle of repose thing. the steepest angle at which a sloping surface formed of a particular loose material is stable. feeling…

  best cured by a trip up coyote hill and out into the forest. ****** it's a good life.   

  new faces at the table = no idle chatter + no solving of world problems. me thinks we're gonna have to teach these gals how to cut loose and bust a gut every now'n'then. it was good to be with my friends who have been attending for many years.…

just before the rains started in again......    

  't'was a fine and windy autumn day. and so, we took a walk.  [pintō took off running. said she couldn't wait for us......] ********** it's a good life.  ******      

  i need to get myself in gear and be more active. summer really kicked my ass hard, and now that all that is over and done with, it's time for winter activity. i need to find excitement, and right now, i just don't have it. i'm sure it will come, however.…