Matins are morning prayers. I’ve written about them before. Whether you are given to prayer or not or even to a belief in God, doing something “up lifting” in the morning is therapeutic. The book I’m working through – it’s actually a 12 week course – The Artist’s Way – mandates that you write three […]
Our word for today is “utensil.” I’ve said before that I’m a gadget freak. I have posted about sieves, may even have waxed eloquent about them. I have also written about cherry pitters and melon ballers. Today, I decided I had to write about a runcible spoon, from The Owl and the Pussycat. When I
Our word for today is “stain.” I am reminded immediately of Lady Macbeth trying to rid her house of the stain of blood. “Out, out damned spot,” she raved. I’m also reminded of the last chapter of Tess of the d’Ubervilles. After Tess kills the man she is forced to live with, she looks up
Our word for today is “gracious.” I have to say it is the perfect word for today, because the cosmos, in her graciousness, gave me a perfectly gracious day!! It started out with a large order for TrueFelt sheets. Not only did it sort out my overstock, it restored my faith that something I really
Our word for today is “together.” It’s a lovely word and a lovely concept. I love “get-to-gethers.” In fact I’m going to one in September. I get together with friends I went to elementary school with. There are ten of us. It’s quite the gathering. We used to celebrate all the significant birthdays of that
Our word for today is natural…. It’s overused to be sure, but it is still one of those words that creates so many positive feelings, when I hear it. I have to work at being cynical when I read a label that says “natural flavourings,” which probably means chemical additives, that taste like the real
Our word for today is synchronicity – meaningful coincidences. We’ve all had them. It’s that time when you said, “I was thinking of calling, so and so, when all of a sudden the phone rings and it’s so snd so.” There is a theory that there is a time in the universe, when concepts were
Our word for today is curious. What could be more curious than the works of Lewis Carroll – Alice in Wonderland is probably the most recognizable and perhaps the most creative of his works. He is, to me, one of the most curious and creative of artists. Creativity, I think, is born of curiosity. People,
Our word for today is biscuit. I love this word because it has a cluster of meanings. First it’s a food. A biscuit is a British cookie. Here’s a site that rates 21 of them, with phrases such as, “As British as Michael Caine, roundabouts and glaring at but not saying anything to people who
Our word for today is volatile – extremely changeable. I realized the last few words that I have given for our writing exercise were turbulent, circuitous and now volatile. Is someone trying to tell me something? Is there mischief afoot? I work at staying calm. Yes, there are times when I erupt! I have to
