Yesterday, after posting the lovely quote about Mother Nature, quiet mind, & roping in the restlessness, I sat down to write and this spilled onto the page: I am restless. Worried. But more restless. Home in the quiet. Everyone is […]
Study the cycles of Mother Nature, for they correspond with the cycles of your soul’s growth. Quiet your mind. Rope in the restlessness. Be here. Learn to labor. Learn to wait. Learn to wait expectantly. – Sarah Ban Breathnach
Not sure if y’all have noticed, how could you not, but it was only a matter of time that turkeys would become followers of This Being Alive. I’ve been remiss in sending out a huge welcome to #55 official follower, […]
I took Dad to see his cardiologist this morning. Boy, was that a scene. They put us in a very narrow office with wood paneling, shades of Edgar Allan Poe. I could barely breathe in there. To make matters worse, on the […]
It’s a gray Sunday afternoon, not like yesterday, when we went to the river. Claire swam with Dad, aka Pop Pop. The two of them rolled around in the water like a couple of young otters. Michael fished the riverbank, […]
1. I am holding my old dog, Che; my arms wrapped around his large, furry dog-self. I am crying, so happy, amazed to be hugging him again, so happy to feel his physical body and to smell his fur. 2. […]
Late bloomers are beautiful.
A month ago, this Oxalis plant was in tatters. It was a pile of brown shriveled twiggy leaves, a pot of dirt, dead. Sadly, I left it to fend for itself out on the back porch… until I circled back around, drizzled […]
Email to Neeny this morning before heading home from my get-away: I stayed an extra day and feel all kinds of things: good, relaxed, ready to get home, nervous to come home. missing my family, enjoying my freedom… breathing. The […]