“The Secret Garden” and the way children’s literature can shape our hearts and minds. When I reach a low point I find concentrating extremely hard, so the kind of reading I normally do is beyond me. I recently bought Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning, finally accepting that the promised copy from a former friend [...]
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Why daffodils became the last straw ~ metaphors that strike to the heart
Posted in Depression and Anxiety, Wild Life, tagged anxiety, daffodils, death, depression, environment, flowers, healing words, mental health, nature, pain, peace, personal, psychology, spring, stress, thoughts, writing on March 26, 2012 | 5 Comments »
Why daffodils became the last straw ~ metaphors that strike to the heart Say the word “daffodils” and any literate person will probably reply with “I wandered lonely as a cloud,” and any poor fool who grew up with Not The Nine O’ Clock News will probably put on a funny voice and say, “He [...]
Capturing Dragonflies
Posted in Poetry, Wild Life, tagged creative writing, death, healing words, life, meditation, nature, poems, Poetry, Viv's poetry on January 16, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Capturing Dragonflies If you catch a dragonfly And dissect it To unravel it secrets, Taking it apart bit by bit Examine under microscope Label its parts Classify it in Latin Then all you are left with Is a pile of wet chitin And some fragments Of dead-rainbow wings. I have captured dragonflies Held them in [...]
Being Queen is a lonely thing ~ why life at the top may not be as sweet as you think
Posted in Articles, Parables: tales with a purpose, spirituality, Wild Life, tagged beekeeping, bees, being queen, creative writing, depression, dreams, healing words, life, mental health, peace, personal, psychology, random, self-development, spirituality, thoughts, wildlife, women's issues, work, writing on July 5, 2011 | 4 Comments »
(This is a post from almost a year ago that for some reason, WordPress destroyed. For those who are interested, the queen mentioned below is doing very well still and we now have four hives and a spare on a roof somewhere hoping to lure a swarm into it.) Being Queen is a lonely thing…. [...]
“If you’re going through Hell, keep going!” or Why Winston Churchill was Right.
Posted in Depression and Anxiety, spirituality, Traveler's tales, Wild Life, tagged anxiety, creative writing, death, depression, dreams, faith, friends, God, healing, healing words, Hell, journey of life, life, life as a journey, meditation, mental health, nature, peace, personal, photos, psychology, random, self-development, spirituality, suffering, thoughts, wildlife, Winston Churchill, work, writing on June 29, 2011 | 5 Comments »
“If you’re going through Hell, keep going” ~ or why Winston Churchill was right If life is a journey that begins with our birth, then the ultimate destination is death. This is simple logic talking, picking apart a somewhat overused metaphor and deconstructing it. I often wonder at the way the [...]
Follow the leader or Blindman’s Buff? ~ where are we going and who do we follow?
Posted in Parables: tales with a purpose, rants, Traveler's tales, Wild Life, tagged anxiety, caterpillars, creative writing, death, following, friends, leadership, life, mental health, nature, personal, psychology, random, self-development, spirituality, thoughts, travel, wildlife, work, writing on June 1, 2011 | 4 Comments »
I took this photo in France in April. The line is a column of caterpillars from the pine processionary moth. These creatures migrate en masse to pupate, and do so in a line where each creature holds the rear end of the one in front of it. You can(with gloves, as they are quite toxic, [...]
Jellyfish ~ a sting in the tale
Posted in Traveler's tales, Wild Life, tagged aquarium, faith, jellyfish, La Rochelle, meditation, nature, photos, sealife, seas, travel, wildlife on April 9, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Even soft, defenseless creatures have a means of retaliating to any aggressor. These ethereal, unearthly jellfish packa real punch of venom!
A is for Aardvark ~ Close encounter with one of the world’s most amazing animals.
Posted in Traveler's tales, Wild Life, tagged aardvarks, animal encounters, animals, anxiety, creative writing, dreams come true, family, humour, life, nature, personal, photos, thoughts, travel, wildlife, work, zoos on March 22, 2011 | 6 Comments »
First view, sleeping beauties A is for Aardvark ~ Close encounter with one of the world’s most amazing animals My husband has long had a love for an unusual creature. Coming at the start of the dictionary and top of the list of animals nobody knows a lot about, aardvarks have enchanted him almost as [...]
Why? #smallstone 15
Posted in Poetic Prose pieces, Wild Life, tagged creative writing, death, depression, healing words, life, mental health, nature, peace, personal, psychology, random, rants, thoughts, wildlife, writing on January 15, 2011 | 9 Comments »
Why do dead leaves leap into the road, impersonating small birds or rodents? They skitter across like small wild creatures lost in frantic escape from unseen predators. It’s always puzzled me. And in the spring, they move like toads or frogs migrating to ancestral ponds, making driving along certain roads an emotional nightmare as they hop erratically [...]
Seagulls #smallstone 12
Posted in Poetic Prose pieces, Poetry, Wild Life, tagged A river of small stones, a river of stones, blogs, creative writing, haikus, humorous poetry, life, nature, nature poetry, poems, Poetry, short poems, Viv's poetry, wildlife, writing on January 12, 2011 | 18 Comments »
Seagulls #smallstone 12 Seagulls circle low Swirling and soaring around Raucous calls ring out
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