EXPLORING THE MAGICAL AND THE MUNDANE


  • Living fearlessly

    I came across this quote and thought it a beautiful description of living fearlessly. Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth.…


  • Flatness

    I’ve been sitting on my bum all day and it feels oh-so-flattened. Ouch. I supposed I should get up and take a walk. It’s actually been raining which is really rare in the summertime. Rain is usually reserved for wintertime. But rain it did. It also did a little thunder and lightening dance which I…


  • WORDS

    “The pen is mightier than the sword” is a metonymic adage coined by English author Edward Bulwer-Lytton  (Thank you, Wikipedea)     Words are very powerful tools.  Like the sword, they cut and separate.  They can cause wounding and festering, turning hearts gangrenous.   Or, they can cut (as in ‘divide’)and share.  They can bless,…


  • Slugfest

    I so appreciate Eureka in the summer.  While the rest of the country is suffering under 99% humidity or 115 degrees in the shade, we are cosily tucked in with a blanket of fog.  Yes, the fog can get a little old if we don’t see the sun for several days.  However, we are not…


  • The Great Asking

    Long ago in the Before, Humankind was named Joy.  Then Otherness came. Otherness took a part of Joy’s Divine Design and kept it so it could control Joy.  The part that was taken made Joy feel empty and Joy turned into Sorrow. Now, Joy-turned-Sorrow, had many other fine attributes and still had all the rest…