Day 216…Journey to Forgiveness

Saying Good-bye… …May his heart now rest in peace…and may mine also My Father’s Family …quite a handsome young man that looks very happy in this photo…but as I look at this photo, I remember the frequent times that he voiced that he blamed his Mother for all the anger that he felt toward’s women…and […]
Day 196…OMG It’s Hot

and I think I’m melting…no I know I am am… I was warned that it would be hot in January…that it was the hottest month of the year…but they didn’t tell me that it was going to be HOT as I had no idea of what “hot” meant…at the moment…most of the country is in […]
Day 125…Rather the Night

“The pale stars were sliding into their places. The whispering of the leaves was almost hushed. All about them it was still and shadowy and sweet. It was that wonderful moment when, for lack of a visible horizon, the not yet darkened world seems infinitely greater—a moment when anything can happen, anything be believed in.” […]
Day 121…Blooming

It does not matter if you are a rose or a lotus or a marigold. What matters is that you are flowering…Rajneesh https://www.azquotes.com/quotes/topics/marigolds.html Hard to believe that it has been 4 months since I have arrived here in Port Elizabeth…so much has transpired… Most of all…coming to terms with retirement…a major life change…for me, it […]
Day 113…Expat Holiday Blues

“Snowflakes swirl down gently in the deep blue haze beyond the window. The outside world is a dream. Inside, the fireplace is brightly lit, and the Yule log crackles with orange and crimson sparks. There’s a steaming mug in your hands, warming your fingers. There’s a friend seated across from you in the cozy chair, […]
Day 94…Date Night

Dressing up…Rose Bouqet lipstick…Talking and Laughing…Holding Hands…A Table for two…a local Craft Beer…A Boschendal Rose Garden Rose… Two Olives Restaurant and Tapas Bar Adding my solitary lonliness with Mr. P’s demanding work schedule and recent Fascia Back situation…it was such a magnificant way to reconnect and fall a little deeper into that yummy feeling… The […]
Day 82…Transplanted

Amost three months have traveled their way through my life, since I arrived here in Port Elizabeth, South Africa…and interwoven among those threads of time… almost every conceivable emotion that a human is capable of…anxiety, awkwardness, excitement, joy, nostolgia, romance and love, sympathy, confusion, aesthetic appreciation, fear, despair…and innumerable others… I have traveled and even […]
Day 53…The Beautiful
There is a beautiful quote by Helen Keller that I love…but, then again, her perspective was different that most of ours… “The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.” ~Helen Keller It has been a little while since I have published…and there has […]