It has been a while

It has been a while since I wrote in ‘mysophistgarden’. Mostly because I was writing somewhere else.

What does it take to make a change?

A conversation with a friendly acquaintance a week or two ago comes to mind as I sit to write. It was about after the time when things have changed, are changing and should change; and feelings. The question that would summarise the content of it was: What does it take to move on and change…

following where it grows

This morning my sabre saw and I cut out 95% of a bohemia tree which has been growing in my parents back garden for a very, very long time. As is its want, the tree is strappy and seeks the company of other trees to help it grow up to the sky.  Over the past…

Two Rooms

To feel safe you have to be able to stand in the darkness and be present.

Light within spaces, stories of being.

The telling of story made an appearance in my thinking this morning. I know it has been a while since I have written in here but quiet is also good for a person and I needed a little. My art work had become predictable and felt like it wasn’t where I was at. New came…

Light Dancing

In a park on an autumn day a while back I watched butterflies doing the butterfly dance through beams of filtered light among the trees and it was exquisite light dancing. The effect of light dancing upon the wings of butterflies of ordinary beauty made them into something entirely spectacular as their colours changed in…

Today I will allow kindness to me….

Today I will accept, receive and allow kindness to me. I know there is some redundancy in repeating with subtle word changes the same idea….if you are like me it is necessary! They say charity begins at home and we should love ourselves, so kindness that is for me should begin with me. Well today…

Today I will blow bubbles in the morning….and smile. They always make me smile, bubbles in the morning. Well, any time of the day really but in the morning they are special. When you watch a bubble suspended on the air currents it can seem like magic. Maybe it is there. The swirling of the surface…

Today I will….

Today I will be a blessing: To bless some is to, in my world view, is to let goodness flow, pay it forward and backward and sideways from what you have and who you are. It is an action.