Love these orchids!
Flowers are a must in January.
(Here is one of the orchids keeping me going right now)

January visual meditations.
#orchids
#picasso

Celebrated a birthday earlier this week by loudly reciting “Renascence” in the blessedly empty house. Are there “life poems” like some of us (religious trauma content warning ⛔️) had “life verses” growing up?

#poetry #EdnaStVincentMillay

I found the Little Free Library where some neighbor is offloading their hardbacks by bestselling authors.
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I haven’t read this one, but loved The Good Lord Bird and others by #JamesMcBride, and I’m overdue for a novel.
Anyone read both?

Recently celebrated the third birthday of my first book.
Trying to focus to finish the proposal for book #2 and get it sent.
Current events not helping.

(BTW: Book #1 makes a great read for Advent. There’s a free reading guide on my website)

#spirituality #bodies

Wondering if I can sit at the kids’ table for this year’s holiday meal.
Bobby the Rainbow-Barfing Gnome seems like good company
#family

When I was feeling pretty blue about recalcitrant systems a few weeks back, I got the best kind of mail
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Sharing for those who may need some encouragement this week
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Let’s Move the Needle: An Activism Handbook for Artists, Crafters, Creators, and Makers, by Shannon Downey

One of my #hospice families cut a bloom from their Abraham Lincoln rose bush last week to say thank you.
The perfume!
Pre-election anxiety medicine