wanderlust

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” Mae West I was in a librairie, bookstore, the other day waiting in line to pay for a pad of paper when I noticed the woman in front of me was holding what I thought was a perplexing choice of...

billet-doux

“Only as high as I reach can I grow. Only as far as I seek can I go.  Only as deep as I look can I see.  Only as much as I dream can I be.” Karen Ravn We think of years as meaningful portions of time as each year unfolds with new chapters of our story.  We...

once in a blue moon

“Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.” Anonymous This year is drawing to a close and I’m left with an abundance of moments and a lot of questions.  Some moments are like fairy lights...

dans le coin

Home is so sad. It stays as it was left, Shaped to the comfort of the last to go As if to win them back. Instead, bereft Of anyone to please, it withers so, Having no heart to put aside the theft And turn again to what it started as, A joyous shot at how things ought...

the mists of aux arbeils

“We don’t see things as they are, we see things as we are. ” Khalil Gibran How do we know if we’ve made the right choices in our lives when so much of life seems to be a balancing act of letting go, holding on, moving forward or stepping back?...