Another quiet day here in the bush. Soon it will be time to throw open the windows and hear the wind in the pines; the birds singing and the whine of traffic on the weekends. Funny how one can almost completely tune out the drone of traffic! It is a beautiful sunny day today. It… Continue reading Decadent
Author: Maggie Turner
Visitors
Three inches of snow! That is what greeted us this morning as light crept across the landscape. A few hours later, the snow is beginning to slide off the roof, to land on the deck and gardens with great loud thumps. Music to my ears! I am coping with the visitation of white by keeping… Continue reading Visitors
Blank Pages
The key to consistency for me, is occasional interruption. Routines are great, as long as they can be set aside at will, to be taken up again later. For a while, each morning, this blog page sat open and blank on the screen at startup. That became an open invitation for shared misery during the… Continue reading Blank Pages
Will Melt
Transition: “the process or a period of changing from one state or condition to another”. So says my computer’s dictionary. That is definitely what I am experiencing today, transition. I was numb, my feelings buried deep so as not to be evident in any way, so as not to set off the hostility and retaliation… Continue reading Will Melt
All Gone
Complete, over, water under the bridge, old news… my last hours at the old office, with the negative coworker, came, and are now gone. All gone. I am blank. The sun is shining, guiding me back to composure and balance. We are now officially out of firewood. All gone. It was a long, cold winter.… Continue reading All Gone