beauty and grief

The photos in the previous post were ones I took last weekend on a few of my snow-shoeing walks. The landscape was beautiful, though at times also somewhat bleak. The weather in my heart was also variable and included some cloudy spots–what I will summarize as grief or grieving–as well as scattered sun–being touched by [...]

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a winter walk

This week, I would like to take you on a meandering walk through some Ontario woods. There is a lot of snow, so you will find snowshoes very handy, if not necessary, for this trek. If you don’t have a pair, not to worry. Ask around. See if any of your friends or colleagues or [...]

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on the chalkboard feb 10/08

The beauty of a thing is its depth and meaning being revealed. To perceive that beauty, you need an eye for both appearances and for the invisible radiance of a thing. You also need the capacity to be affected.
~Thomas Moore , from Dark Nights of the Soul, (c) 2004, p. 223

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penny whistle love

One late afternoon last weekend, I went for a short, meandering walk through the neighbourhood before the sun quietly tucked below the horizon tugging along with it the light of day. Nearing a few blocks before my home, I heard the sweet sound of a wind instrument floating though the air. The source was a [...]

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snow days

It has snowed a lot in Kingston over the past week as in many other places. I love the snow. I love how it makes indoor spaces brighter on gray days (and we have had many of those with gray days far outnumbering sunny ones). I love how snow can seem to make everything quieter, [...]

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now there is a fire where there once was a spark

Do you ever find yourself feeling full, alive with much, touched by many things, yet unsure how to capture any of it with words? I have been finding myself in this space off and on lately–full of much, moved and enlivened by much but unsure how to express all that it stirs, what to [...]

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