Honored Spaces

11/13/2025

May we reconnect with our eyes, our ears and the voice of our hearts, today dear Readers. If only for a moment here and there, step by step. It all counts!

"Walk, step by step, breath by breath, towards the person you want to be.
The path you take, will not be new.
But as old as your soul.
For it has been mapped in you since you came into being.
You just got lost on your way; forgetting how to read your compass. All the noise and babble, distorted views and odd ways that got layered over the top of it, meant you lost touch with your eyes, your ears and the voice of your heart.
But it’s there waiting for you, etched into your bones and your knowing; full of medicine plants, strong trees and life.
Full of heart."
by Brigit Anna McNeill

11/12/2025

When we've forgotten to seek or we've become closed off to learning how to reconnect with our joy, peace and nurturing, our growth stops at the threshold of that door. The good news, dear Readers, is that the Creator of all growth is ever patient and awaits our single step through the door; even if opened just a cautionary crack, peace and joy begin to reach out to help us make the subsequent steps. Are we ready for the adventure? It waits for us!

11/11/2025

For the rest of this week, even if we choose one line to act out per day, it will be enough, dear Readers. It will be enough. ~

11/10/2025

May we grow our joy, and bravery with intention this week, dear Readers.

11/07/2025

Happy Friday dear Readers. What if for this weekend, we just concentrated on anything that makes our hearts and hearth reconnect to the light coming within? What if we worked from the inside out? It only takes a spark, an intention to begin. Are you with me?

11/06/2025

Retro post 12-20-2017
The following quote from Salvadoran priest, Oscar Romero (1917-1980) was posted throughout an article in my hometown paper this morning, thanks to awesome author, Diane Urbani de la Paz. She wrote how we need to stay on the lookout not just for the injustices in our world today, but also what has been beautiful and inspirational. Thanks, Diane, for such a timely reminder.

"It helps now and then to step back and take a long view. We plant the seeds that one day will grow. We water seeds already planted, knowing that they hold future promise...we cannot do everything and there is a sense of liberation in realizing that. This enables us to do something and do it very well. We may never see the end results, but that is the difference between the worker and the master builder. We are workers, not master builders...prophets of a future not our own."

Point yourself in the direction of inspiration and beauty and find something to do there, dear Readers...inspire on! ❤
~Clallam County Photographer unknown, but appreciated!

11/04/2025

Well, I daresay that sometimes, we actually can love a person, AND get so preoccupied with many pieces of busy-ness and distraction in our own lives, that we forget about the magical bits in those we love.
When we forget to take a more panoramic view of all that is special in those we love, I suspect we are not seeing or feeling the magic within ourselves as well, dear Readers.
So for today, here's to pulling back our lens when experiencing others, getting the wide shots, so our vistas of all things wonderful and uniquely magical about ourselves and those we love, can be included in our day today.
~meme discovered in- "Slow Simple Seasonal"

11/03/2025

Welcome, November! What shall we be enjoying this month? It's hard to believe that there's only 1 more month of this Bucket List calendar to share. I have enjoyed them so! Whether you stretch yourself to do an activity that you don't normally do, or you stick with the familiar and comfy somethings, may they bring you a spot of joy and calm, dear Readers!

10/31/2025

Giving birth to new life...
labor pains do not always
produce birth right away.
Preparing for what's to become,
who will I be in this newness?
When will the darkness come undone?
Born, reborn and yet still growing.
Still toddling towards tomorrow's greatness.
~Aimée Bradley (April 10, 2014)

It is asking these questions and knowing that new growth always comes, that we can shed the old and nurture the new, dear Readers; ask your questions, then prepare for the wait of birth and the nurturing of new growth. It is within us all, waiting for our readiness to grow again and again.

10/30/2025

Well of course, no one consciously chooses despair over joy, but I do know that we forget to make the choice for Joy when we need it the most!
I also need to be reminded to LOOK for joy and for even the smallest inspirations that cause wonderment which lead to joyful moments. Today, a ladybug with a star-wand is bringing me whimsy and who knows where that will lead? May you find some whimsy, wonder and joy today, dear Readers!

🍄 “Even a wounded world is feeding us. Even a wounded world holds us, giving us moments of wonder and joy. I choose joy over despair. Not because I have my head in the sand, but because joy is what the earth gives me daily and I must return the gift.” 🐞 Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass ― Art by Charles van Sandwyk