learned:

Today I learned that I have become more self-assertive and less inclined to take a lot of bullshit.

I am grateful for assertion skills.

And also for paint, scissors, glue and paper.

[a different form of self-assertion.]

Here, now.

This morning, I notice that perhaps I make myself a cup of tea less for the tea and more for the time it takes the water to boil. Pausing, I have a chance to notice how I am, what the trees look like today, to savor the heat of the stove.


I am grateful this morning that fairy tales are only fairy tales.

Also, for Neil Gaiman, whose birthday it is, and is one of the few souls who knows what a good story is worth.

chasing my own tail

on an almost daily basis, I find myself seeking for something outside, something more, deeper, brighter, richer.

I wonder what's been lurking under my floor.


Let's find out.