December Reflections 15: Difficult day in 2020

Oh, wow, we have to pick just one from all of those difficult days? Sticking a pin into my diary, I come up with The Day That We Didn’t Stay In Germany. Back at the beginning of September we set off from home in the hope of travelling to Germany, through Austria and beyond, to …

Masks

I came across a quotation today that I wish to note down “We wear the mask that grins and lies,It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,—This debt we pay to human guile;With torn and bleeding hearts we smile”~Paul Laurence Dunbar I need to return to this.

Wishing on a Shooting Star; An Intention to Find an Intent

Yesterday was a good day. I felt positive and energised and achieved a good deal, I think. I was on quite a high when I went to bed. Sleep eluded me for a long time as my head was abuzz with ideas. The sky was bright and clear and I could make out the constellations …

December Reflections 14: Mask Selfie

No! Really? Must I? I do not have a happy relationship with face masks. One of the several reasons that I gave up my work in the NHS was because I had much trouble with mask-wearing and more than once had to fight off an overwhelming urge to tear a mask from my face whilst …

December Reflections 17: things I Missed

Before we sold up in Orkney and went on the road for a while, I had a large desk in our shared office where I would write with pen and ink or with electrons, a craft room for my paper crafts and photo studio etc, a caravan in the garden for my fibre crafts, and …

December Reflections 13: Reindeer

This prompt had me thoroughly stumped. Not many Renne around my little corner of France. I once saw one walking down the street in Kirkwall. It was on a leash and I wasn’t drunk – but that’s scarcely a relevant Reflection on 2020. Saw these at Chatsworth a few years ago and they captured my …