Tag: Grief
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Walking Away from Someone You Love (and Hate and Fear)
Photo by Lorna Tedder, copyright December 2006; Peaceful on the farm at sunset–a much gentler energy after Daddy died. I hated him. I loved him, too. But this is probably the first time in my life that I’ve been grateful that Daddy was a tyrant. It’s afforded me the opportunity to see his traits…
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Is this Message for You? (Dark Days, Lunar Eclipse, August 2008)
Photo by macxbebe; creative commons license. Is this message for you? As my long-time readers know, I occasionally feel the need to give someone a “message.” Often I don’t understand the urge to write these words and have no idea what I’ll say until it’s on the screen in front of me or who it…
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The Letting Go Song (Inspiration from ABBA/Mamma Mia)
I took my Broadway-Musical-loving Aislinn to see Mamma Mia a few nights ago so we could have some mother-daughter bonding time. I loved the movie–sucker that I am for musicals and reunion romances. It reminded me of when she and her older sister were little and I used to play ABBA songs while they danced…
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My Garden Gives Me Little Surprises (Or Is It the Fairies?)
” Will you dance with me, Mother of the World?” — Sharon Knight Sometimes, you find things in your garden that you’d forgotten. Mother’s Day was a little strange to me this year. The girls gave me some terrific presents, and afterward I took the girls to the farm to visit my mom, which was…
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Scorpio Moon: Is It Real or Is It Illusion?
Here’s a replay of a previous post about a ritual from 2005, just because we have double full moons in Scorpio with a Taurus sun for the April-May 2008 time frame. This was during my Cancer Scare of 2005–turned out to be a caffeine-induced lump–but I was just coming to grips with starting over and…