Archive of: Petals
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New Normal: chasing a tired, weak, and depleted old dream
- 28 January 2022
- Being HIM Be still & know Wandering muse
It’s always a work in progress, just like me, dream or no dream
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Who was that Masked Man?
- 25 March 2021
- Wandering muse
I was sure I knew him from somewhere, but where?
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Expecting...the Unexpected
- 20 August 2019
- Grace & Mercy Love & Loss
Alone is not what she’d choose if allowed, but what she had offers hope for what she still has left to pursue and accomplish.
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Life Transition: No. 107
- 25 October 2018
- Noticing the details Relationships 101
Yes, change is transition and change is hard. It’s painful. And it’s inevitable.
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The Old & the Knew
- 05 April 2018
- Communication & Conflict Wandering muse
Come on, people. Work with me? I don’t get it, know it, feel it, or understand the question.
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An Enthusiastic Eclipse Experience
- 01 September 2017
- Be still & know Noticing the details Wandering muse
I was resigned to the idea that we may have to be content with 99% coverage….but we are so close and the stories of the difference that 1% can make…
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Procrastination? Me? Well...yeah
- 26 August 2017
- Be still & know That Still, Small Voice
The “you don’t do enough for others” message is contradicted by the knowledge that if I try to DO more, I will be capable of BEING LESS…less rested, less peaceful, less available to those around me.
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Stretched Between Two Tribes
- 02 February 2017
- Caution ~ Dangerous Communication & Conflict Wandering muse
I miss the days where two people could agree to disagree, change the topic to an area of neutral alliance, and later part as friends, or at least distant cousins who see each other at funerals and weddings–a civil framework where disagreement does not have to be disagreeable. That does not appear to be the norm anymore, and I don’t know if I am more sad than mad, OR if I am gradually coming to understand something very important about the world I now apparently inhabit.
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A Year Full of Blessed Assurance
- 04 December 2016
- Garden music Love & Loss Wandering muse
In my work, “normal” can be the enemy of acceptance. I work with the lost and hurting–those terrified by the prospect of change and NO change and are caught somewhere in the middle, by the exit marked “NORMAL” (better known as the opposite of what I am experiencing right now).
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What's in an AGE?
- 13 October 2016
- Be still & know Garden music Wandering muse
Is “age” simply a number, or is there more to consider as we “age?” That’s perhaps a clue to the answer to my question. Consider this: for all its small stature and breadth, AGE is a complex word with many uses and assumptions to its appearance in the lexicon. It cannot confine or define the entire story, for it is but an instant amidst all others in a life refined by each coming moment.