Thursday, December 31, 2015

A Shiny New Year - 2016!


Pop the cork on this New Year.
Drink deeply.
Let the bubbles tickle your nose.
Savour each moment.
Live!


May you be surrounded by warmth, love and light.
Happy 2016!





Thursday, December 24, 2015

Christmas Gifts


This Christmas...
Let the world know Peace


Let the sky be full of Hope


Let our hearts overflow with Love

Wishing a Merry Christmas and Happy Holiday to all my blogger friends.


Thursday, December 17, 2015

Gone To Seed

Seeds are marvellous mini-miracles.

To look at them, one would never suspect
that inside each tiny package,

a seed,
dry and wrinkled,
some no bigger than a grain of sand,

Could contain the power of
Transformation!

If you didn't witness it with your own eyes
would you believe it at all?

To begin this transformation
the plant must first come
completely undone.

It drops this gift-wrapped,
blueprint of itself
to the ground

Where it must remain
buried deep
in the dark
earth

Until the light
calls it back
to life

Miracles occur in the most unlikely places.
~
There are more miracles
in a square yard
of earth
than in all the fables
of the world.




Wednesday, December 2, 2015

And So It Begins


Winter is playing a game of peek-a-boo with us,
you know how it likes to keep things fun.

A little frost here to decorate the flowers that remain,
a dusting of snow there that disappears by mid-day...

It knows how downright unenthusiastic we can be
when it first arrives so it likes to keep us guessing,
is it here or is it not?


We become increasingly grumpy and morose
as everything around us shrivels up and dies
once the cold temperatures set in.


Our colourful landscape is stripped bare,
reduced to black and white.


And the plants that once brought us such happiness and joy?
They've turned into scary-looking monsters
that shiver in place and haunt our garden.


But, this does happen every year.
Don't lose heart.


In no time, once our eyes lose all memory
of what vibrant spring, summer and fall colours look like,
all that white fluffy stuff
will appear more and more beautiful.


Of course, there are also winter survival strategies:

You can always pretend it's just not happening.
This liar seagull is splashing around
in -1 C sun-dappled water,
but you'd never know it.
Because it's swimming in the balmy waters
of Lake Denial!


Dreaming of warmer temperatures
and soft, flower-scented breezes works well too.

If you do it right
by the time you wake up
it'll be Spring again!


But, probably the best strategy of all
is to find your inner glow,
(we all have one.)

Surround yourself with the warmth and light
of family and friends.

Laugh, complain,
be daring and go outside.

There's plenty to enjoy about every season.


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