Sometimes I feel like I’m going nowhere, in opposite directions.
Personal Journal
Emotion sickness
The mind can cook up very subtle syndromes to throw at our bodies.
Motherly perseverance
Mother Nature is the ultimate truth of the show must
War paint
We paint our lives with passion and peace, with love and laughter — to cover the pain and scars, the bitterness and tears.
Deprecated
Age is like the latest version of a software — it has a bunch of great new features but you lost all the cool features the previous version had.
Live well
Don’t trade your life for just an empty hourglass.
Sparks & sizzle
Two people who have chemistry evolve quickly to biology.
Timekeeper
Grief is historian of the heart.
Your battle
If your armor against the world is laziness and excuses, you’re not protecting yourself from battle and injury — you’ve trapped yourself inside with them.
Talons
Owls are hunters
Humans are mechanical separators —
separating by metal machines
meat from bones
life from death
fat from essence —
but in Nature, where Man used to come from
a long time ago — remember it? —
none of those things is separable.
BRAIN from SENSE
Radiant joy
Aside from new babies, new mothers must be the most beautiful creatures
Unreasonably warm in Phoenix
We live in an Arizona desert town
where winter is brown and green
and summer is green and brown
with 300 annual days of sunscreen
our autumn’s unreasonably warm
and springtime is mostly too hot
here we live for every rainstorm
and the seasons—well, they’re not.
Agony of anxious
Fear —
not running-from-bear
but running-from-life
Courage —
not getting-up-the-nerve
but getting-up-every-day