Category: journalling
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New Year’s Day – good luck/back luck -> Tradition vs Superstition
I don’t know about you, but my Facebook feed was filled with all the things I should and should not do today, eat and not eat, put out and not put out. It is dizzying. Eat 12 grapes at midnight. Black-eyed peas and cabbage. Don’t do laundry. Sweep, don’t sweep. Shower, don’t shower. Don’t take…
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An Objective [goal] you can work on before year’s end
I have been building my yoga practice since starting my yoga teacher training in September. It has been slow going. Since my mother’s death, it has been even slower, and more or less a mental wish, more than anything else. My motivation has been zapped. But as I wrote about before, I am giving myself…
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Memories from the past year that make me smile
My Dad got a cat and he and my step-mom are doting new pawrents. Cleo is an adorable little tuxedo kitten they got from the Humane Society. She is a sweet, well tempered, well behaved kitten that likes people, treats, and her large toy collection. My Dad and step-Mom post many pictures of her and…
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Three favourite photos of 2025 (and why)
I started sorting through my photos from 2025 (all from my phone) and I realized a couple things. First. I take a lot of pictures of our cat. Second, I don’t take nearly enough pictures of the people in my life. I had one picture of my Mother – which made me extremely sad, a…
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Three things I am grateful for this year
Gratitude should surround us but sometimes, it gets lost. It isn’t always easy to find, or it is hard to see that gratitude doesn’t have to be big or flashy. Something as simple as being thankful or appreciative for the sunrise or a hot meal is a way to see gratitude in our everyday. Earlier…
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How I feel loved (right now)
I had to have a think on this. Not because I haven’t felt surrounded by love lately, I have, but because how am I feeling it is different. How am I internalizing it, how is it showing up for me, how am I processing it, how am I accepting it. Am I accepting it? People…
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Something for me this holiday
If you’ve been here a while or read back, you may be aware that I was trying to accomplish fifty things before I turned fifty. Because life got lifey, it became 50 things before the end of my fiftieth year. Well, that all got blown to hell with 2026 exploding onto the scene with all…
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The most important thing to me right (right now)
During my yoga teacher training this weekend, we were learning about how to do chanting and mantras. Our facilitator share one with us, which is one I am familiar with from other courses, and while we meditating to it, she said ‘send healing out to your community, who ever that it’ and I was unable…
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Courage to know when to stop
Today, I was to write about one way I’ve shown courage over the past year. I had three different examples from my life that I felt illustrated how I’d shown courage in 2025. However, after a couple of very long and somewhat stressful days, I have decided my courage is going to come from knowing…
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One way I surprised myself this year…
As I recently said in a text to someone, “I am an emotional basketball.” Now, what I meant was basketcase, but autocorrect knew better, apparently. What does this mean? I have big emotions, many of them, all at once. They spill over, generally in the form of tears, often sobs, and I lose all ability…
The Voices In My Head 