does the human body renew itself every seven years?
Thursday, 28 December 2023
2+0+2+3=7
Monday, 6 November 2023
before the year ends
how a year can change ~ season, energy, direction:
it teaches you shit:
it SHOULD teach you shit:
I learned that gratitude and grief can exist side by side:
when my heart was shattered, I learned to be grateful for the pain because it means
I’m alive and I know how to love deeply:
there’s no need to hide from life so I put my self completely into crazy messy hard but honest living:
I can still love the life I live and still ride those waves of emptiness
navigate past questions that there are no answers to:
the paths I didn’t take and the people that are no longer walking that path with me:
my horse and cart, with my shit and no-one else’s:
remember this ~ we don’t know that the last time we do something is going to be the last:
it can happen unexpectedly or you don’t see it coming because you sweep the signs aside:
the raw truth too hard to face eye to eye so you divert and digress:
inevitably, you can’t avoid the last times but you can love what you have right now ~ more:
the heart can handle so much more that we give it credit for:
it’s far stronger than I realised and while sometimes I wish it didn’t have to be in situations
where it needed to be strong
I am truly grateful for it’s beat to remind me that I am still alive
I am still here
and in it’s chambers and ventricles and blood
in the joy and heartbreak ~ it has known love
it knows love
Thursday, 27 July 2023
the green green grass
so in the need to reset my inner thermostat:
I have been promising to visit
so the time felt right to book a flight
all that green grass!
sheep, cows, horses, peat piles
Monday, 28 June 2021
to sleep perchance?
here we are
in this time of strange
and I am wondering
have we forgotten to dream?
not the dream of sleep
but the dreams we have of something to achieve:
a place we would like to visit beyond that of home
of family or friends:
a notion of learning something outside of our comfort
or a big idea that has been perculating:
when did our dreams become so contained?
most people dream a dream when they are asleep:
you have to dream intentionally
when you are awake
Friday, 6 November 2020
*.*.* here, there and everywhere
from the house I called home
to a temporary rental by the sea
living out of a suitcase
my belongings in a shipping container
my apartment is being built at lightning quick speed
I have no idea when it will be habitable
I am feeling unsettled
I'm between places
I miss my own bed
some days are harder than others
but I know it won't be forever
Friday, 16 October 2020
|^^| let's create a living space
except this time I have moved temporarily
that will be the ground floor bathroom
and laundry room
the builder puts out his thoughts
I say hmmm can we do that, but with this extra
he rarely says no
he knows what he is doing
and I know what I want
a good team
Tuesday, 30 June 2020
\/\/\ when love breaks down
it had been building for a little while
I knew it
he knew it
I've been living a story for the last year or so
today, with a big feather quill
I'm dipping it into the pot of ink
and writing a false stop
.
no regrets, no sadness
“I believe that love is the indispensable fuel for us to go on living.
Someday that love may end.
Or it may never amount to anything.
But even if love fades away, even if it’s unrequited,
you can still hold on to the memory of having loved someone,
of having fallen in love with someone.
And that’s a valuable source of warmth.
Without that heat source,
a person’s heart would turn into a bitterly cold, barren wasteland.
A place where not a ray of sunlight falls,
where the wildflowers of peace,
the trees of hope, have no chance to grow.
Here in my heart,
I plan to use these memories
as my own little fuel source to burn on cold nights,
to keep me warm as I live out what’s left of my own personal life.”
Haruku Murakami