Most every day starts in the very same room... at the very same window... sipping coffee from the very same mug. And it's always early because I don't want to miss a moment... not one moment as the sky lights up before me. Some mornings, like this one, there's no choice but to throw on coat over pajamas and head out …
Author: Brooke McGillivray
Weekly Photo Challenge: Reflections
I wish I could capture the day beginning... the sky opening... what I see on my early riser mornings with first cup of coffee. But that would take a different kind of photography, way beyond my skill level. Plus, I'd have to get dressed and go outside! A close second to that wish is a day captured last …
What I Need For a New Start
Christmas lights are off... In fact, all of Christmas is packed away. The big table's empty and I wonder if it wonders where it's people are? I do. So it's time to press on with the living that still brings more question than answer... ...to battle each day for a sliver of joy. I need to believe there is meaning beyond …
Beauty and Grace and Seedless Green Grapes
I perched on the edge of the pool in all my 13 year-old gawkiness... poised to dive head first. My wet hair and wet suit had long since dried. I was a wreck. I wanted to jump. She said I had to jump. But I just couldn’t jump. Irrational fear flooded my mind. Arms and …
Following Tractors… and other stuff I learned in July
1 - The days of some months are like trying to catch a greased pig at the county fair... they slip thru your fingers and refuse to be contained in a single word... as in it's been a long time since I've written here. 2 - On the face of the earth there are only …
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Your Ten-year-old Self
Three of my seven grandchildren share my birth month, which... I don't know about you, but I think it's kind of odd. Anyway, this young one recently turned 10. This summer his bare legs and toes will race thru lawn sprinklers, peddle his birthday bike and chase his brother around the house. He will go to …
Two Eggs, Toast and Coffee Cliff
Doug and I don’t get much couple time anymore… unless you count TV after dinner… until one of us conks out… and that would be him. Sometimes I arrange for a caregiver on Saturdays. Typically we’ll spend that day working on the never-ending projects at our old house. And that’s OK with me. It’s a day together. I appreciate …
A Blog Do-Over, of sorts
I became intrigued with the blogging world about three years ago and began to follow several. By e-reader or email, these blogs faithfully showed up. For awhile. Then some tapered off so I’d need to remind myself what it was I liked about them in the first place. And then the day came when I’d open my email …
Weekly Photo Challenge ~ In The Background
My son, Ian, under the wing of the plane he takes care of... like a baby... he loves it... he really, really loves it.. Can mice get into a car? Thought I heard scratching sounds on the way home from the post office... sending the husband in to do a "mouse-sweep"! And in honor of …
23,376 Days
There’s an old shed on our property that needs to come down… ever since we lived there actually... which is about 8,694 days. But like many things, it was put on the back burner. It was too cold outside, too rainy, too hot, too much stuff stored inside and what would we do with it all anyway? But …
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