17 December 202

In Control 

In You I find my rest, You are in control

17 December 2024

Invisible but not silent 

Smile at that stranger on the street 

4 December 2024

Miss dust writes about coffee

concrete man - on concrete chair

4 December 2023

Adjustments

I’m sitting perched between two Rachel’s

27 November 202

Your Song

It's for people like you that keep it turned on

27 Novemer 2023

External Vs. Internal 

Happy Wedding Anniversary

20 November 2023

Walk the line

It's worth a shot

20 Novmber 2023

Touched by an angel 

Yet it is only love which sets us free

13 November 2023

Time to rest your weary head 

Take your wings and go to bed


13 November 2023

Fullness of joy revisited

I would be inclined to sprint and I hate running in any form

6 November 2023

Multi Tasking 

I have finally become one of the people I used to manage


6 November 2023

Miracles

To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle

30 October 2023

Song to the Siren

Sail to me, let me enfold you


30 October 2023

Stories

The stories stay long after the details have faded

23 October 2023

When you wake tomorrow 

I will give you a poem when you wake tomorrow


23 October 2023

Spring

Am I doing or giving my best?”

16 October 2023

Mr. Harris

And then he came ... Mr Harris


16 October 2023

(Kyle) I Found You

In this smoking chaos, our shoulder blades kissed

9 October 2023

Miss. Harris 

Miss Harris was like a round hole and I was a hexagonal peg, we just did not fit

9 October 2023

I carry your heart with me 

Here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud

2 October 2023

Lisp

All I wanted for Christmas was a new front tooth

2 October 2023

Superbird 

Fly, fly fly 

25 September 2023

The Report Card

Is precocious the right word? Yes indeed

25 September

The Sun Rising

Busy old fool, unruly sun, Why dost thou thus,

Through windows, and through curtains call on us?

19 September 2023

Helping

Mum was so patient with me ... up to a point 

19 September

The Ninety Nine

When I was younger I often worried about those ninety nine sheep in his absence

14 September 2023

The Wrong Bus 

I was too young and knew too little to fix it

14 September 2023

Rest

In between the busy was the BLISS

4 Sepember 2023

Poetry in plain sight 

Bits of poems can be found ... everywhere! 

4 September 2023

Because I could not stop for death 

Second time trying to post this one ... its just a poem, enjoy :-)

26 August 2023

So Will I 

The 2nd Song 

26 August 2023

The Night Circus 

The circus arrives without warning. No

announcements precede it. It is simply

there, when yesterday ... it was not. 

22 August 2023

Hearing God

Here I am! 

22 August 2023

Healing Hands 

Oh its the little angel!

 

14 August 2023

Make my Life a Prayer to you by Melody Green

You always start a list with your favourite 

14 August 2023

Changes

I did some stuff late last week that I am really proud of. I said NO.

 

11 August 2023

Nana

My nana stood five feet tall in her stocking feet but she was MIGHTY none the less

9 August 2023

I'm Back!

Gabe prefers a dog mum who is upright and I can totally relate

 

19 July, 2023

Extrodinary

You fall in love with this extraordinary person and over time they begin to seem ordinary

17 July, 2023

Cough

I’m just so grateful for all of it!

 

13 July, 2023

Blah!

I am tired of being unwell and would like to 

play another game please

11 July, 2023

Knowing

Just because we can know something - should we

open that door in the first place?

 

5 July, 2023

The words we leave behind

A diary was recently unearthed that my dad kept over a number of years

3 July, 2023

Certainty

Was he the guy who patted your hand and told

you not to worry?

28 June, 2023

Beam me up Scotty!

I spent about five minutes checking each room in the house just in case my family were tucked in a cupboard having afternoon tea without me

26 June, 2023

Drawing outside the lines

We started work on the pottery wheel this week

21 June, 2023

The parable of the pearl 

This parable boils down to one thought

19 June, 2023

Timeless

Time grounds and centres us, it helps us have a framework in which to live around

14 June, 2023

Family time

And then I noticed it - an 'open house' flag fluttering

in the wind

12 June, 2023

I thought I heard my daddy

I woke up in the middle of the night and I could clearly hear my daddy’s voice from the next room 

7 June, 2023

Pain

He didn’t need to get over this pain - he needed to go through it

5 June, 2023

Help

His brain and mine just work in a similar way

 

31 May, 2023

Always

What Alan Rickman can do with one word

29 May, 2023

General Update

I met with my GP earlier this week 

24 May, 2023

Talking Myself to Death 

I can report back that thinking and talking about death regularly does not mean the dude with the scythe automatically turns up at your door

22 May, 2023

Eve of Ascension 

I really want to know if he floated upwards slowly or if he went quickly like a super hero? 

18 May, 2023

Quotes

You don't have to be perfect to be amazing!

16 May, 2023

The Forgotten Memory

I was an odd child, there is just no getting away from that

10 May, 2023

Peace

There is something magical about planting bulbs

8 May, 2023

Paths

It’s so easy to go along with the herds and take the easier roads 

19 April, 2023

Sy Rogers 

I vividly remember the first time I heard Sy Rogers speak

17 April, 2023

One thing at a time

Last week I packed a lot in and now I am paying

for that

11 April, 2023

Fullness of Joy

I left bits and pieces with her which were then lost to the corners of both cupboards and time

9 April, 2023

Angels

They were designed and engineered to be instant communicators between realms

5 April, 2023

Gabe of Wonder

Then out of a crate waddled Gabe arriving late and looking slightly puzzled and confused

 3 April, 2023

The family we choose

For his filming of the notable bomber raid on Eindhoven he was awarded the DFC

 29 March, 2023

Crucifixion

It took Jesus six hours to die on the cross

27 March, 2023

About Grace

It was a symbiotic relationship in every sense of that word

 22 March, 2023

Mistakes

Are you an "oops" baby like me?

20 March, 2023

Support

It was both tragic and hilarious all at the same time

17 March, 2023

Cannabis

To add insult to injury its not even grown in NZ!

15 March, 2023

Awake!

That's what it feels like in my head right now

5 March, 2023

Spiritual Vs. Human

I don’t think that we are human beings on a spiritual journey. I think we are spiritual beings on a human journey

3 March, 2023

Clarity & Focus 

Even my inner voice sounds smarter than she did!

12 February, 2023

Trust Issues

Don't ask her!

10 February, 2023

Fame!

The more people that recognise you - the more famous you are

1 February, 2023

Connections

The issues in life are so small compared to the greatness that is inside you

30 January, 2023

Trash Vs Treasure

Tangible treasure is something you would run back into a building to retrieve

27 January, 2023

My Tether

Then, now and forever

25 January,  2023

Lily

That's me!  Can you hear me?

20 January, 2023

My heart is in two places

Indescribable colors!

18 January, 2023

Weariness

I just didn't have it in me!

12 January, 2023

Treading water

We’ve stayed in the same spot and now we’re 25 miles in front

10 January, 2023

The best of all op shops

We are all about wants ... at bargain prices!

4 January, 2023

The Fibonacci sequence 

Finger print on the world 

2 January, 2023

Post-it Notes

How do I manage day to day?

28 December, 2022

Tiny things

Anything small is  in my wheelhouse 

26 December, 2022

Memory

I don't want to forget that 

20 December, 2022

Genes

I got a really bad bunch

19 December, 2022

Glimpsing Heaven

She knew then that she was standing in the breath of God

13 December, 2022

My burning bush moment

You have always lived in the palm of my hand 

11 December, 2022

Fatigue

I feel like I am wading through treacle

8 November, 2022

The "Talking" God

Let there be light 

7 November, 2022

Details

I need to move my expectations

3 November, 2022

Retirement

I cannot imagine running out of things to do 

2 November, 2022

Trust

It's like signing a marriage certificate but on speed!

25. Oct, 2022

If you are the praying type could you pop up a good word on my behalf?

16. Oct, 2022

The plan for today was to meet up in Petone where we would have a lovely long lunch followed by lots of shopping.

13. Oct, 2022

I was not stupid, I just learnt differently

7. Oct, 2022

My Dad died of liver cancer which took his life quickly.

30. Sep, 2022

Today was my last day at work and it was … weird.

22. Sep, 2022

The inspiration to keep a blog came directly via an amazing young lady named Harriet Rowland.

18. Oct, 2022

The one silver lining is the sleep

14. Oct, 2022

I didn’t know who I was, where I was or why I was there

13. Oct, 2022

I woke up the next day and realized that I already live inside my bucket list.

4. Oct, 2022

I have started shopping for someone I am about to become.

27. Sep, 2022

I've become aware over the past 4-6 weeks that I am slowly fading.

21. Sep, 2022

How did you know this was happening?

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