“Rained gently last night, just enough to wash the town clean, and then today a clean crisp fat spring day, the air redolent, the kind of green minty succulent air you’d bottle if you could and snort greedily on bleak,… Read more
Books Diane Recommends
needed now, more than ever
People are finding new ways to cope and pass the time while in isolation and personal distancing. We are living through extraordinary times. Most of us are experiencing something we have never heard of before nor have been through. It’s… Read more
A Story, General
a balm for the times
Music speaks what cannot be expressed, soothes the mind and gives it rest. Heals the heart and makes it whole, flows from heaven to the soul. (unknown origin) No matter what is happening in the world, music is always there… Read more
A Story
show don’t tell
A picture is worth a thousand words but what are words worth? It depends on the words doesn’t it? It may even depend upon how the words are delivered (text, social media, or how about a handwritten card or letter?)…. Read more
General
someplace to go . . . look for the rainbows
“A very sweet light is spreading over the Earth like a perfume. The moon is slowly dissolving and a boy-sun languidly stretches his translucent arms … Cool murmurings of pure waters that surrender themselves to the hillsides. A pair of… Read more
General
quietude
As the patio door opens, the rain-soaked cedar welcomes me with its sweet, musky fragrance. It’s natural as air to inhale deeply with such a morning greeting. I take no more than two or three steps each day during this… Read more
A Story
Savour the moments (food, delicious food)
The earthy aroma of homemade bread toasting on a wood stove, wafting its way up through the air vent into our bedroom each morning. That is one of my earliest food memories. “We all have our food memories, some good… Read more
General
there is beauty in snow
“I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, “Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer… Read more
