a night without quiet stillness wrapped unwrapped not meant for comfort not tonight but for opportunity to hear to listen and to see the difference in where the two meet and where they meet where do they meet? there is no comfort not there or here mind responsible again for leaving the rest awake wandering…

    You must not come lightly to the blank page. – Stephen King   We are surrounded by blank pages. I certainly am. I have a small collection of mirrors that I keep on the wall in my basement and one that hangs in my garden outside. I also have a large empty picture…

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!- Jerry Van Amerongen The simplest things can provide me deep inspiration. Today, this photograph I took of a bouquet of orchids I bought last week, is the inspiration for a new story…  

I was inspired today by silence and how powerful sitting alone in silence can be.

  We must be willing to get rid of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us – Joseph Campbell   I often am inspired by quotes that I find randomly. If I am having a particularly stuck moment (for whatever reason) flipping through a book or finding…

I am sitting by the window, watching the late afternoon sun and a beautiful blue sky, and thinking about what inspired me today. My thoughts immediately turn to a group of women who have become my friends at work. I call them my Scottish ladies, though one of them is British and an honorary Scot.…