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Hello Dear Ones!
Mike and I just celebrated our 93rd Monthaversary (we were married in October of 2002) and we treated ourselves to a nice dinner out. Over the meal we found ourselves reliving the amazement of our wedding and honeymoon (a collection of stories in and of themselves!) and laughed about the challenges that had befallen us over this same period of time.
As events of our lives arose, and with each new adventure, we couldn’t imagine how we were going to get through this situation or that challenge, this drama or that letting go of something deemed essential in the moment. In other words, there were many times when we moved from one home or city to another with at least one of us kicking and screaming and being dragged by the hair from point A to point B.
We can laugh about it now! And we did exactly that tonight. We are both so grateful that our sense of humour stayed heartily intact over the years! We have grown spiritually as well – both individually and as a couple. As a result, this latest crisis of spirit that I have recently undergone, though devastating on its own, has been less traumatic than it might have been years back. What I can say is that rather than kicking and screaming like a toddler taking a temper tantrum the way I might have, I found myself going into a place of relative quiet. There was a sense of angst without the demonstrative component to accompany it. It was a peaceful crumbling into self – rather scary, actually. Continue reading “Marcia’s Meanderings – Kicking & Screaming“
Hello Dear Ones!
If you follow our posts regularly, our entries this week: Mike’s - Being Green – Literally & Marcia’s - Marcia’s Meanderings – A Crisis of Spirit, you will already know that both of us have had our share of interesting challenges in the past seven days.
Hello Dear Ones!
Reflecting back to the AHA moments in my life – and there have been so very many of them! – I smile at the ‘Wow and Wonderful’ uplifting qualities of these incredible experiences. Each has revealed some aspect within or about me and opened me up to the potential [...]
Hello, Dear Reader:
We were trying to decide on a topic for this week’s ‘He Says, She Says…‘ post and were both surprised to realize that we’ve already written 31 posts in this category (plus one announcing the birth of our newest grandson). Therefore, rather than adding to the list this week we thought we’d provide an index to the topics we’ve already covered (in alphabetical order, no less). Enjoy!
Continue reading “He Says, She Says… A Recap“
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Lots of poetry to share with you today and I’ve decided to include two apophysis pics for you as well!
 Continue reading “Poetry ‘n’ Pics IV“
Hello Dear Ones!
The past few days have been a mixed blend of fabulous moments and reminders to myself that every moment can be fabulous if I choose it to be so.
Even the above statement is less a story I would want to tell others than one that would inspire either of us – you or myself! So rather than a new post on a less than relevant topic, I thought to include here a previous post that truly uplifted me when I wrote it, and then did the same today as I reread it … because I needed it! Here it is … my original take on our He Says/She Says topic The Stories I Tell Myself (copied here for your convenience): Continue reading “Marcia’s Meanderings – Stories: A Refresher Course“
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It’s getting rather late in the day, but we didn’t want to let a Sunday pass without including something in the ‘He Says, She Says…‘ section of our blog. As it happened we invested much of our day today at the ‘Organic Islands Festival and Sustainability Expo‘, billed as Canada’s Largest Outdoor Green Festival. The festival was held this weekend at Glendale Gardens & Woodland, itself a beautiful collection of gardens at Victoria’s north end. In a way our being there today was a coming together of things for us, and we wanted to take a moment or two to mention some of them. Continue reading “He Says, She Says… Synthesis“
Hi Folks:
Although Marcia and I have been keeping up pretty well with the disparate areas of our blog, there has been one section that hasn’t been given much attention: my ‘Mike’s Writings‘ section. In fact, I haven’t posted anything here for over three months. I mentioned this briefly in an e-mail I sent recently to a friend, and that got me thinking about this area of our blog again. Here’s a part of what I wrote:
“Anyway, I’ve also been doing a lot of my own writing. It’s interesting, but I used to write solely for me – then I found myself sending out some of my writings to a select group of people – so a year ago I bought a laptop so I could type directly instead of writing everything out by hand first. Then I put some of my writings on our blog… but it all became too public for me. Earlier this year I read ‘Eat Pray Love’ and in that book she mentioned that she has a notebook just for her most private conversations, so I bought one and began writing in that while simultaneously doing some of my more public writing. Then I gave that up and now I mostly just write for myself again, although I do read much of what I write to Marcia. There’s a different feel to writing thoughts out by hand, although it definitely takes longer. It feels more private, I think.”
Shortly after that I wrote the following in my journal, which further expanded on what I was experiencing. I am going to share that section here, in its entirety… Continue reading “Mike’s Writings X“
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My book – A Year in the Life of a Bus-Traveling Poet – went to the printers on June 29th. Blessings be, we beat the deadline! Since then I’ve been filling all my spare time writing poetry galore! Lots to include today … enjoy! Continue reading “Poetry ‘n’ Pics III“
Hello Dear Ones!
Last week I spent all of my time in a last minute rush to finish the final editing on my book – A Year in the Life of a Bus-Traveling Poet – in order to get it off to the printer by June 30th. Once the pages had been [...]
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