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As I sat down to write this, I realized my last post was the summer solstice and now it is the fall equinox! What!! How did the time fly by so fast? A couple of tidbits I learned while reading about the fall equinox. The equinox happened this year on September 22nd at 7:43 am…
As I sit here sipping on an iced latte, of my own making, I wonder what the rest of the year has in store, the rest of my life really. I know we can’t know and I know it is wasted thought-energy wondering. But….I know what my heart wants. Let me back up a bit….
We have had an unseasonably mild winter here in WI and now having spring weather barely the second week in March! The last week in February I noticed my tulips poking their noses out of the ground and the trees starting to bud. I had a little chat with them about it not even being…
Well, not literally kicking, but moving and there is some dancing involved. 🙂 Isn’t he cute? My first entry in my 2024 journal was, “I wonder what this year will bring?”. Hummm, kind of a scary thought in a way. Last year did not have a good start at all, but this year has been…
I am sitting here with a fresh, hot, cup of coffee in hand and the space heater running. It has been so cold this week and it makes me think about how Mother Nature was teasing us with weather in the 20’s to 40’s. Walking with Bentley, on the trail behind my house, would bring…
The winter solstice is celebrated on December 21st, the day with the least daylight of the year. If you are wondering why and the world, we would want to celebrate this, let me explain. 🙂 The winter solstice, the shortest day of the year, also means the longest night of the year. In my mind,…
How are you doing right now? Thanksgiving thoughts…. How was your Thanksgiving? I am hoping it was time spent enjoying some yummy food, gathered with friends and family. Waking up on Thanksgiving morning, before my sister and youngest kiddo arrived, the journal was pulled out and I did some writing as my thoughts cruised down…
Discombobulated is a word, right? Well, if it isn’t, it should be, because it describes the state of my brain at the moment! How about you? Are you hanging in there with the approaching holiday season and daily life mixed into it or are you feeling discombobulated as well? Let me explain the current discombobulation….
I am sitting at my art desk cluttered with a notebook full of notes, my computer open playing YouTube tutorials, painting a rose on canvas while trying really hard not to dip my paintbrush in my now cold cup of coffee, all while watching giant snowflakes dance around outside. While I welcome in the last…
Well, I am not a witch, but I am a Northern Woodland gatherer of lovely bits and bobs from nature. A friend of mine posted that she is doing a class at her shop on making witch-brooms for Halloween. Alas, she lives too far away for me to attend (I use to attend some of…