Shimmer & Shine in that Garden of Mine

"Poetry calls us to pause. There is so much we overlook, while the abundance around us continues to Shimmer, on its own" - Naomi Shihab Nye  

Astounding Australia

"Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises" - Pedro Calderon de la Barca I recently had a fellow blogger comment in surprise at the greenery featured in Sunday Serenity.  I'd love to know what your thoughts are on Australia? What have you heard about my country? Is Australia on your bucket …

Not a Paw Out Of Place

We have so much to learn from animals. They are everything humans are not. ...Like Max... We have known each other for less than a year but he welcomes me like family. At fourteen years of age he has started to lose his eyesight. He hardly lets this hush his bark or cease his bounce. …

Home

'There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort' - Jane Austen  Growing up I believed home was confined to the idea of an address; a building constructed for human habitation. As a child, comfort was when I would fake being sick on the couch just to watch cartoons and be waited on by the …