Today is Mabon, the celebration of the fall equinox in the Northern Hemisphere. The world sits at the balance between the summer half of the year and the winter. Now the days begin to grow shorter, the nights longer. Now we reap the fruits of the harvest, the corn and the wheat, the apples […]
Category Archives: Life
Shapeshifter
I am not a fixed point. I am always moving, always changing. Everything comes and go in cycles, waves and swirls, even tidal waves sometimes. My body changes. It changes size and structure. I regularly cycle up and down through 50 or 60 pounds and several dress sizes. It happens every few years, regardless of […]
Just Keep Swimming
I feel like I should be about due for a pontificating post at this point, but I am so very, very tired and achy right now that I can’t do it. I can’t do any research on anything, I can’t think out logical arguments, I can’t. I’m so tired that normally I would have been […]
Need and Fire
I love fire. It burns very close to my heart. I love to watch it, the flames twisting and turning, the blast furnace of the coals underneath, the crackling and sparking, the transformation of everything it touches, the warmth, the need to breathe, the need for fuel. I have always loved to watch fires and […]
No Box
There is no box, not for me. You try to place me in one. You see something about me, and you say, Oh, this is how I feel, and this is how I see the world, and this is what challenges me, and this is what I desire. But you don’t know me. To me, […]
Life Is Good
I certainly post enough entries here when I’m feeling sad, frustrated, argumentative, or what have you. I should be trying to post more when life is feeling good, which it is today. There’s nothing special I can think of that makes it super good. The kids still fight and skip chores, the house is still […]
Then and Now
When we got married more than twenty years ago, I don’t think anybody thought we were going anywhere. I had essentially run away from home and crossed state lines to move in with my boyfriend when I was 17. He was in a computer science program at Lion’s World Services for the Blind in Little Rock, […]
Dancing Through Life
The Great and Wonderful Aunt Anne came through last week. It was wonderful to get to visit with her, although we did not get to ride together after all. (Turns out, she didn’t bring her bikes on this trip!) We cooked together, their dog Chucho and A’Kos played together…or at least Chucho tolerated A’Kos trying […]
The Eye of the Storm
Close your eyes and sit comfortably, spine balanced, arms and legs relaxed, face soft. Breathe in deeply through your nose…and out through your mouth…and again, feeling the breath fill your body. “Mom, can I have cereal for breakfast?” Breathe in slowly to a count of four…one…two…three… *thud* A 45-pound body lands in your lap and […]
Just another day
Hit the snooze button at 8:30, get out of bed at 8:40, go to the bathroom, pour up the last of the coffee, make a new pot of coffee, turn on the computer, hand Kender the last of yesterday’s waffles, take all the fans out of the windows and turn on the A/C, get the […]