It really irks me when I read how simple it is to be happy. You just decide! According to the well-meaning advice of many it's as simple as

We forget that in the course of a lifetime we too navigate seasons. Heck, in the course of a day we can experience many seasons...

For now I am eternally grateful for my time living alone, having dominion over my home and lifestyle, creating beauty as and when I please.

Bringing order and harmony into your daily habits pays dividends in your mind.

A cluttered mind has little room for creativity.

Where misery abounds creativity is out the back door. And in most of my living environments for many decades, there was very little joy.

That kitchen table is home. It is the centre of family life that makes our home familiar and comfortable, secure and stable and enduring.

Oh how I love these conversations that are thoughtful, considered, open to digging deeper together.

Don't mistake this necessity to move through your own emotions and find resolution as not being present to the situation.

I wonder if we have completely missed the point of what makes us civilised.

...sustained times when my power was taken from me..

Can you ever be good enough for those whose hearts are not yet able to embrace you.

Guilt and sadness in a tumultuous mix of empathy for George Floyd's mother.

For me it's about attending to what needs to be done

I want to acknowledge the pain of discrimination that the people of this land on which I have the privilege to sit and write this post

It's super easy to buy something that is packaged and marketed and has a whole story that someone else created ...

Teapots or china cups, miniature elephants or pate knives didn't do it for me.

And life is fun and simple and fluid.

My challenge is to allow myself to be fully expressed in my home.

With a few precious pieces of furniture that came with me, we filled the spaces with love, lighting the way for deep healing.