Tag: Musings
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Cattails and Reconciliation
It says on the Canadian Flower Delivery website that: When you hand someone a cattail, it symbolizes peace and it will give the recipient well wishes of prosperity. If you have someone that you are fighting with or someone that you want to show that you truly appreciate, give them a cattail and let it…
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A muse at day’s ending toward a new year
In response to a blog post from Jane Davies (https://janedavies-collagejourneys.blogspot.com/2022/12/committing-to-play.html?fbclid=IwAR08TZhbc-mTGUCYBX0159bVh5PGEq7VkxyFEwwGpkLnj0ScDE5ROHf1czQ) an artist whose style I admire and whose teaching style fits my learning style, someone who I don’t even know posted this: I’ve only shared a small portion of what this person “said”, but I am sharing what spoke most loudly and clearly to me.…
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Pool Musings … Midday
Sunday, August 9th We come down to “our” pool at midday for a swim and some exercise to work out the kinks accumulated over the years and through this pandemic indolence. Two men, one young, one older, attend at the barbeques on the patio. Corn and some other food are carefully turned. A man,…
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Pilgrims
Twice in the past few days I have read similar versions of the following story (which I paraphrase): “A troubled pilgrim, exhausted from the journey, asked a sage for help. The sage gazed compassionately into the pilgrim’s eyes and after a time he spoke, “I can offer you one of two things – a map…
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