Calm like the stillness of the lake
Calm like the quiet of the night
Calm like green grass of the meadow
Calm like the early morning breeze
Calm like the serenity prayer
Calm like a baby sleeping
Calm like the murmur of water
Calm like a soul at peace
July 9th, 2018
Morning pages
Write what you want
Empty your cup
Let your mind roam around and explore
There is no particular goal
Write about what has been
Write about what’s to come
Write about your hope and dreams
Just write
We all need to express ourselves
We need to be listened to
Your pages are your companion
Always ready to listen to you
Morning pages
Write what you want
Empty your cup
This is your gift to you
May 15th, 2018
A smile is a smile
No matter our race or class or nationality
Tears are tears
No matter where we are from
Laughter is exhilarating
No matter who is laughing
Heartache is painful
No matter the colour our skin
Hope gives us wings
No matter where we were born
Despair makes our days
Cloudy and dark
No matter how rich or poor we are
Kindness and a loving heart
Don’t depend on what we look like
Patience and humility
Come from inside us
Our essence
Our qualities
How we make others feel
And how we feel, emanate from and are felt by the spirit inside us
May 14, 2018
What do I do when I want to relax?
What do I do to get away from it all?
What do I do for me time?
The answer is simple: I write
Sometimes what I write is interesting
Other times, not so much
The purpose is not always
Creating a work of art
It’s emptying my cup
There is a calm that comes over me
When I write
I can’t explain it
Don’t know why
But that writing is one of my favourite things
There is no doubt
Give me a pen and paper
And a writing spot
Preferably in a coffee shop
And I’ll be happy and satisfied
Why expressing myself
Brings me joy, I don’t know
Why do I have this need to write
I don’t know
All I know is that writing gives me life
Refreshes my soul and cheers my heart
April 21st, 2018
Why is connection so important?
Why is friendship essential?
Why do we need good friends in our lives?
Because friendship is a reflection of love
And love is the essence of life
It’s what gives us life
It’s what sustains life
And it’s what makes life beautiful
People are fascinating
We are all so different and yet the same
We have similar needs
But fulfill them in different ways
In the end, we all want to be loved and valued
We hope to contribute somehow to the society we live in
We want to be seen and heard
We want to have true friends in our lives
We want to learn and discover and fulfill our potential
These needs transcend Nationality, race and culture
These needs are human needs
Common to us all
April 2nd 2018
There are times in our lives
That the intensity of our emotions
Overwhelms us
We feel deeply
We yearn passionately
We hurt intensely
We miss others badly
These powerful emotions
Sometimes bring us to our knees
We want to get out of the whirlwind
But we can’t
We feel the same feeling over and over
And it hurts
And at the same time
These are times that we feel most alive
The waves created by our emotions
Keep crashing against the cliff of our spirit
But in the end
Our spirit makes it through
It survives another storm
And arrives at a place of calm
March 23rd, 2018
Painful experiences lead to beautiful insight
A painful birth to a most beautiful child
In our world pain and beauty are intertwined
Beauty can be painful
Can wrench the heart
Beauty can cause us pain and trauma
Beauty and pain are intertwined
March 11th, 2018
There is a thought that keeps going round and round
In my head
I feel like I’m caught in a whirlwind
It’s a battle of sorts
That I have with myself
I try to make sense of things
But don’t manage
Is it a matter of letting go?
Or is it something to hold on to?
Am I being fair to others and myself?
What do I need to be doing different?
I’ve been over all these thoughts in my head
And I don’t find any answers
Some issues are simpler than others
And this one is most circuitous
March 15th, 2018
Wouldn’t if be easier if life
Were black and white
Something was either right or wrong
But life’s not like that
And things come in all shades of grey
And what is one to do
How is one to behave?
Does is depend on the shade of grey?
Or is grey moving into the territory of black
And we kid our selves?
The life’s questions are many
And the answers sometimes are illusive
Perhaps the passage of time
Will shed some light
On the dark recesses of life
February 27th, 2018
