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?
