“The best things in life are unexpected – because there were no expectations.”
Eli Khamarov
When I drop Pip off at Daisytree pre-school two mornings a week, it provides Fig and I with a two-hour chunk of one-on-one time. During the week-long Spring Break, Fig demonstrated a few negative, attention-seeking behaviours [...]
“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
Kahlil Gibran
Over the last month, it seems as though Fig has become more attached to me than usual. She’s sleeping through the night now and I’m down to only two breast-feeds each day, so she may [...]
“Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.”
- Hamilton Wright Mabi
Now that I have an opportunity to write, I’m realizing that I really missed my daily postings last week! It reminds me of when I moved away from home to go to the University of [...]
“Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.”
George Burns
Do you remember Grassman? Well, he’s still around. He’s been hanging out on our kitchen counter with our jade plant, watching the fall storms blow through our yard. Some of [...]
“Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
Lately, it seems that many of Pip’s sentences begin with, ‘I want…’ We’re not sure where the ‘May I pleases,’ have gone, but we’re determined to find them. [...]
“In the end these things matter most:
How well did you love?
How fully did you love?
How deeply did you learn to let go?”
Buddha
When I was staying out at my parents’ beach house recently, I went for a walk by myself. It was bittersweet, and [...]