Used to be every June we would make a trip to Bangkok. A long weekend for a birthday. It would be a couple months past Songkran and the touristy crowds with the water guns would be gone (not all of them, but enough). Fewer would … Continue readingOur proud summer
Next week the Year of the Metal Rat will give way to the turn of the Metal Ox. The small will give way to the stubborn. Or so it seems. This year feels different, of course. So many of us won’t be able to return … Continue readingWontons
The caps of snow, the crowns of ice, they look like the folds of noren curtains to me. The harsh cobalt mountains like a deep blue sea. Everything is inverted, a memory of other memories. We are flying over the Southern Patagonian Ice Field. We … Continue readingClouds
These days I have taken to morning walks, short strolls in the garden before starting my day. What began as a chance to stretch my legs and take in some fresh air is now a daily discovery. New flowers I had not observed previously. How … Continue readingSmile
The past week has been a bit of a downer but I will allow myself that. Not to wallow but to accept. I have bad days; we all do. The difference lies in rising again and opening up to what is glorious and what is … Continue readingEmbrace the messy
I flip the red bookmark from between the pages of my journal. Time to write. I am not at my desk at home. I am not facing the balcony, the large palm fronds shuddering in the garden below. I have not brewed a pot of … Continue readingEnough