One night maybe a month or so ago, a man much younger than me hit on me….and we proceeded to talk for maybe an hour or more before it was time to part ways. As I was walking away, I overheard him say something to his friend about me. “Isn’t she great?” he asked. HisContinue reading “I am…different”
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Finding Refuge…
As humans, we often seek and find refuge in a multitude of places. Our bodies, minds, and hearts require opportunities for retreat from life’s harsh realities, regardless of how accustomed we become to it’s difficulties and fragility. Emotional refuge, specifically, is something that we all need and seek on some level. Some may find itContinue reading “Finding Refuge…”
Messages from the Universe
Heart broken and needing to shut myself off from the world, I walked around Gray’s Lake in Des Moines just before Labor Day 2021. As I passed baby catamarans docked on the shoreline, a man passed me and smiled. “Your hair is beautiful,” he said as he walked by. How strange, I thought. And yet,Continue reading “Messages from the Universe”
Not a love language…
Anyone familiar with the five love languages of touch, quality time, words of affirmation, gifts, and acts of service is probably not new to the idea that individuals don’t always interpret love the same way. That is, they show and receive love through actions or behaviors that may differ from others close to them. BecauseContinue reading “Not a love language…”
A new home with you…
You may be but a world away, but you are the keeper and holder of my heart. Perhaps you are unaware, but it’s been in your care for awhile. Like a stowaway….it hitched a ride home with you on a cold night under the stars in another state when I intended to love you onlyContinue reading “A new home with you…”
On loan from the universe…
As soon as we separate ourselves from others, others separate themselves from us. This was just one of the thoughts or realizations I had one cold day this past January as I house-sat for a friend in Des Moines, Iowa. I had been watching a few videos on minimalism prior to sitting down to write,Continue reading “On loan from the universe…”
A twin story…
When I was just three years old, I broke someone’s heart for the first time….and as I revisit the experience, I wonder what it might tell me about myself, relationships in general, and matters of the heart. But first, the story…. Like many children whose parents have depended on two incomes, I attended pre-school forContinue reading “A twin story…”
Love, hope, and wrong turns…
The tightrope between hope and despair is one many of us have walked a time or two in the search for love….so I thought a few words on the subject might be due. If you’ve ever hoped for something in love one minute, but found yourself wanting to throw in the towel the next, thenContinue reading “Love, hope, and wrong turns…”
Someday, you could be soaring…
During a one-day symposium held at the University of California in October 1986, author Ray Bradbury reportedly (Los Angeles Times) surmised that if enough people followed their hearts, they could realize their optimistic vision of humanity’s future. Although I would have been just 15 years old at the time, what he is credited with sayingContinue reading “Someday, you could be soaring…”
Treehouse Living in Asheville…
When my friend Sarah moved to the mountains of North Carolina last year, I couldn’t wait to visit her. An accomplished stained glass artist, she had moved into a large rustic artist studio just outside of Asheville with her boyfriend Kelly, a blacksmith and artist working in metal and various other mediums. The studio, itself,Continue reading “Treehouse Living in Asheville…”
Amid the chaos…
Jetting from jacuzzi walls, small pockets of air rise and escape to the pool’s steamy surface in mini geodesic domes before being released back into the atmosphere. Forming, disappearing, and replaced within mere seconds, each half-dome spends its short and insignificant existence among others of its kind…..above the water but below the sky. Large andContinue reading “Amid the chaos…”
Not really your friends…
About a year before we married, my late husband traveled to Japan, where he taught English for about six months. At the time he left, in the spring of 1991, we had been dating for over two years. Sitting across from each other in a booth at a local restaurant the day before his flight,Continue reading “Not really your friends…”
Not inside our things, but inside of us…
Tomorrow, we embark on a new year and with it will come (presumably) new experiences. For some of us, it may even bring a few new goals, although getting out of 2020 alive looks to be at the top of most people’s list. It’s been a difficult year, to say the least…..a year of devastatingContinue reading “Not inside our things, but inside of us…”
Dear World…
I understand that you like to dictate what I should do with my life for the sake of mere survival, but we no longer live in a time of hunters and gatherers. We live in a time of creators. We live in a time where we are no longer simple reactionary beings subject to theContinue reading “Dear World…”
Jeanie Unbottled 