The Buddha in the Basement ~ a dream

The Buddha in the Basement ~ a dream A few weeks ago, I woke with a bad migraine. It was so bad I had to phone in sick, but something came out of a day spent in bed, dosed with migraine medication and tea brought to me by my lovely daughter each time I feebly [...]

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Hey Babe, take a walk on the wild side ~ with Walker by Jane Alexander

Hey babe, take a walk on the wild side ~ with Walker by Jane Alexander Over Christmas I downloaded a book I was not sure I would like. When I was a kid, the genre YOUNG ADULT barely existed, if at all, and I’d have run screaming from it, as the condescending marketing ploy from [...]

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Tales of the Wellspring part 2 ~ the origins

Tales of the Wellspring part 2 ~ the origins I’ve always struggled with community, with being among people constantly. It’s always made me feel as if there is something horribly wrong with me that after a couple of days I start to feel irritable, angry and then finally desperate. The first time I began to [...]

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“Power is the ability not to have to please” ~ selfishness versus selflessness

“Power is the ability not to have to please” ~ selfishness versus selflessness A few years ago I bought a small pendant shaped like a stylised goddess figure to hang from a leather thong; on the reverse it said, “Power is the ability not to have to please.” It was a kind of motto for [...]

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Doors within Doors ~ deciphering the dreaming

Doors within Doors ~ deciphering the dreaming Last year I found myself taking lots of photographs of doors and doorways, some open, some closed and some even bricked up.  The best ones (visually anyway) were ones that were taken from the inside looking out. The view is framed by the doorway and the view is [...]

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Ties That Bind Us 2 ~ a poem about the bonds of love and loss

Ties that Bind 2 Do not cut those ties To those you have lost. The blade hurts beyond bearing And cuts more than you know. Let those ties fray rather In the winds of passing time. Thread by thread Strand by strand, Time wears the fabric down. The first to fray is need; Wiry like [...]

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The Fisherman’s Prayer

“Dear Lord, be good to me,     the sea is so wide       and my boat is so small.”            Irish Fisherman’s Prayer

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A fragrance of roses ~ a love-story for Christmas Eve

  A fragrance of roses    The scent of summer wakes me, drifting on the cool night air, and brings me to consciousness again. Roses in fullest bloom, warmed by June sunshine, great old fashioned cabbage-headed flowers that drop petals and trail their heavenly scent throughout the house. But it is late December and amid [...]

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I believe in Father Christmas….

  I believe in Father Christmas   This might sound a peculiar statement from one of my years (I am over forty) but do bear with me on this. My childhood Christmas memories are pretty well all happy ones, and my parents maintained the Father Christmas idea by not putting any decorations or a tree [...]

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Bliss

  Bliss ~ what it feels like and perhaps where it comes from.   It might be because I was reading through some of my notebooks of poetry I’ve never typed up or shared, but I started thinking about bliss. Not that my poetry is filled with bliss. Most of the time it is filled [...]

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