No alarm this morning awakened by only soft dappled light streaming through the white curtains Grab coffee- warm creamy and comforting, then out to admire the urban garden we aspire to- rather than lawn that must be maintained. Small chickadees play chase between the birdfeeders and the tall ash tree from the neighbor’s yard, while a squirrel […]
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Magnolia
On Monday, I came home after another brutal Monday they, the Mondays, all run together now. I did not even step outside to see what happened in the garden today… Our garden, my Joy… to be brutally honest I did not care. old joke-bad joke “A man comes home and kicks the dog” At least I […]
Inner turmoil
Time races forward towards June. Soon it will be here, the worst month of each year when my Pied Piper answered a whispered call, he could or would- not turn down… I feel anxiety stretching taut over me head to toe over me like the five tiny kittens I once saw swaddled in plastic and tucked in […]
I heard it snowed today in Denver
I heard it snowed today again in Denver all the ground looks like a frosty, winter wonderland Here in Texas it has been another a muggy day why we aren’t getting rain I can’t quite understand Storm clouds are moving up now from the coastline they spread and shroud the Monday morning sky The pressure in the air is heavy […]
¡Me estoy sonrojando!
I spent the day in the kitchen… for breakfast, French Toast, which I learned many decades ago is called “lost bread”in Louisiana…likely because that is what they use the “bread-past-its-prime” to make. I used fresh Oat grain bread, because I have two loaves of it, fresh from the co-op yesterday and I wanted to try […]
Saturday morning co-op basket
This morning I awakened early as it is Bountiful Basket morning at the Co-op I joined. A This morning I awakened early as it is Bountiful Basket morning at the Co-op I joined. My treasures are: 8 lbs. of strawberries 10 apples 9 bananas 3 ripe mangos 4 onions 2 heads garlic 3 bunches of green […]
The miracle of an Ordinary Saturday
Saturday, I chose to turn off the alarm and sleep as long as dreams would keep me. I surrendered into the daylight right after it arrived. Instead of rising at 5:00 I snoozed and sank back into my jumbled, confusing mind trips until six. I loved the weekend days so there was little chance […]
Happy Earth Day to our lil blue speck
Morning broke with a blush of rose-colored sky. Sunny afternoon- a cloudless sky, typical of spring in my part of Texas Earth Day on our small blue planet. I skipped out of work early to enjoy my small slice of Paradise in the back of the Robin’s egg blue house on Bilbrook Place. Birdsong; House […]
The sadness of today
Today we lost a friend. The thief, this time- Pancreatic cancer. He was younger than both of us. I have an overwhelming sense of sadness; A lump-in-throat, ache-in-chest, Tony has departed the physical earth… Remembering back to the night we met, at his dad’s and Becky’s house… Romeo was massaging Becky and I was feeling excluded, […]
Picking Roses for Romeo
A holiday! Free from the office madness still awaken early, as is my habit; birds not yet aroused. I put on coffee to perk and my Christmas slippers step outside to see what this dawn will bring. The fragrance of roses draws me down the damp, muddy path still wet from yesterday’s […]
Nancilynn is Writing again 