home to the beloved

If we can manage to quiet our minds and listen to that deep and living silence within, we discover that there is guidance available to us whenever we are ready to hear it, from Heart to heart.

my own teeth

Not too long ago, I had to have a tooth pulled.  It was a middling-large one at the outer edge … More

spring encounter

On a wet green morning at the cusp of spring….

[photo courtesy Kaarina Dillabough via Visual hunt]

white widow

As she raced down the empty track, Ellen couldn’t help grinning gleefully to herself. She’d actually done it…

culling grounds

To me, the fact that snow geese mate for life seems to make it even more unjust that mated pairs are so cruelly separated.

32nd anniversary, revisited

“Real isn’t how you are made,” said the Skin Horse. “It’s a thing that happens when a [person] loves you….”

rock music

Hello my friends, I’m sitting at my computer in my basement office, staring up at the window. I live in … More

everyday wonders

Just a few of the amazing tasks our bodies perform for us, day in and day out, throughout our lives.

stones

This morning as I sit at my computer, I’ve been thinking (somewhat belatedly, it’s true) about changes I might make … More

pease porridge and other factoids

England is old and small, and the local folks started running out of places to bury people….

New Year’s 2017

Hope smiles….

cookie monster

In my world, cookies are like potato chips: you simply cannot stop at one.

Christmas Eve message

across the fence

First Day Home…he was just a little boy and could still fit comfortably in people’s arms.

shadows

Blurred shapes creep and shuffle at the outer reaches of her vision, gloating that she cannot turn her head in time to halt their ambush.

One Truth ☮ Many Songs

Originally posted on Creative by Nature:
  “All major mystical traditions have recognized that there is a paradox at the heart of…

war bride

Did you search your mirror, breathless,
for shining eyes, flushed cheeks, signs this must be, must be love?

last straw

Over the days and weeks, as he comes and goes in his little car, she excavates the lawn, inch by loving inch.

let us remember….

They didn’t give you long to live on the Somme. About three months was the average life expectancy, and that time was hell on earth.

hard battle

Plato was right; we all fight our own hard battles in this life.

of ostriches and boobies

I’ve  been away from The Crone’s Nest for several weeks now without a word of why or wherefore, and I … More

the freedom of forgiveness

Forgiveness does not have anything to do with other people; it has everything to do with you.

something to think about

Comprehension, conciliation and forgiveness are not signs of weakness; they are signs of courage.

saying goodbye to old friends

If I had banked the money I spent on each of those thousands of books, I’d likely be a multi-millionaire by now.

But oh, how much poorer I would be in every other way!

Madame Black Thumb’s bonsai

Madame Black Thumb receives a beautiful live bonsai. Read on…