“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.” Michel de Montaigne
A Little Beauty
November
November. The month of darker evenings, cooler nights, and barer trees. Fall Song Another year gone, leaving everywhere its rich spiced residues: vines, leaves, the uneaten fruits crumbling damply in the shadows, unmattering back from the particular island of this… Read more
A Little Beauty
simply this
Less is more may be applied to words, at times. “The little stories of our lives tell of simple moments when the everyday is transformed into something remarkable.” Laura Pashby in Little Stories of Your Life
A Little Beauty
Find what brings you joy, and go there
I’ve been wanting to do this for over a year. The other day I finally moved all the furniture around in my office so my desk would be sitting directly in front of the large sun-filled window. It feels great!… Read more
A Little Beauty
let the autumn sun shine in
These autumn mornings are either a flood of gold or a winking and blinking of it as the indigo clouds stretch and split. Often when entering the living room, the neighbour’s tulip tree blazes its brilliance, branches waiving as if… Read more
A Little Beauty
good morning
“Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.” Dalai Lama I had forgotten: that soft morning feeling; the smell of the air; the lick of the sea over dormant rocks; the silence broken only by… Read more
A Little Beauty, A Story
journal, randomly
Thursday, September 2, 2021: Hostess gift received; unique and given with such thought. Monday, September 6, 2021: My homegrown tomatoes take my thoughts to my dear mother. I always smell them first, like she did. She also taught me to… Read more
A Little Beauty
Skies I have known
“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.” … Read more
