Monthly Archives: August 2025

day 236

a day 

diamonds
at dawn, and at dusk
crimson skies

~kat


It’s been there all along, everyday. Shimmering glimmers at dawn when the rising sun bounces off the juniper tree leaves just so….and again at dusk when the sun drops past the horizon lighting the sky with a fire show! It happens everyday and all I need to do is notice it.

Noticing glimmers shuts out the cacophony of the world’s craziness, you know… and if you didn’t know, trust me. It does!

Much love, peace, and glimmers to you! The kind that stops you in your tracks and takes your breath away.

~kat ✨✨✨💚💚💚✨✨✨


day 235

colors

some days I’m blue
like the sky
watching the world
from above, or
like an ocean
waves of thought
crashing into shore
scattering sand
swallowed in the undertow
of emotions…so many…
too many to count
and some days I am red
furious, ferocious
filled with rage
with disbelief
with determination
for justice, for fairness
from a bankrupt nation
and then there are days
especially at dawn
I am green
my feet longing
to feel the cool loam,
blades of grass
pushing up
between my toes
the scent of dew
drenched earth
and honeysuckle
thick in the air
an entire 64-count
box of crayons
can’t touch
nature’s hues
but the smell
of a new box
stirs memories
of the rainbow that
colors my world

~kat

Today was a rush. Between work and other obligations a whirlwind that had me holding on. Some people might call it a typical Monday. I am weary of Mondays. Tomorrow is another day. A new day. Thank goodness!

Much love, peace, and glimmers to you!

~kat

Gabby had a spa day…maybe that’s what I need. 🤩

day 234 ~ a ReVerse Poem – 24 August 2025

a ReVerse Poem - 24 August 2025

it’s a reflexive response
leaves break free
(it) requires one to draw from the deep well
petals of purple
made up or real, it matters not
it’s just the breeze, fall will begin

~kat

It’s certainly been an interesting week. There was a lot going on in the world and in my little corner of it. But I didn’t realize how my focus this week, in spite of everything, has been consistently on the changes coming…a milestone birthday, retirement, simplifying things in my life as I learn to let go and embrace the autumn season of my life. 

Where did the time go? I have certainly had an amazing, full life thus far and if the fates allow me a few more years, I’m think that the best is yet to come. 

Whatever season you find yourself in, take time to reflect on the blessings. They pass by in a blink! 

Much Love, peace, and glimmers to you!

~kat ✨✨✨💚💚💚✨✨✨


day 233

the forest calling…come away, come away ~kat
cool snap

the air feels cool against my skin
could this be autumn, finally here
not yet I know, but oh, I take it in
the air feels cool against my skin
it’s just the breeze, fall will begin
in due time as it does each year
the air feels cool against my skin
could this be autumn, finally here

~kat

I am slowing down these days. I tell myself it is the heat of summer. But the truth is I am getting older. Early to bed…early to rise…more often than not a nap in between. I feel it in my bones. It seems no matter what I try…more exercise, supplements, the latest, greatest remedies that promise to restore the energy of youth…it all eventually proves to be the snake oil that it is. I’m getting older. Just as summer is ending soon, I am adjusting slowly to the shift in the seasons of my life. 

Autumn brings with it a gentle letting go, it’s true, but it also ushers in the harvest! A time to celebrate the fruits of a vibrant spring and summer. I have so much to celebrate and to savor. Children grown with children of their own and children of my children’s children now too! Longtime friends, and new ones too. A home in the woods to spend the rest of my days. Words, so many words, some that rhyme and some that dance, and music and paintings, the legacy I’ll leave behind. Kind, loving, compassionate, fair…the things I tried to be. I’m not planning an exit from this life just yet…but oh what a romp it has been so far. Perhaps slowing down is just the thing I need to realize how far I’ve come, and time to take it all in. 

Much love, peace, and glimmers to you! Sometimes the brightest glimmers come in knowing.

~kat ✨✨✨💚💚💚✨✨✨


Today’s poetry form…the Triolet

triolet:

A (first line)
B (second line)
a (rhymes with first line)
A (repeat first line)
a (rhymes with first line)
b (rhymes with second line)
A (repeat first line)
B (repeat second line)


day 232

babies at the helm

their retribution knows no bounds
no resolution may be found
their injury, whether faux or real
seeks recompense, but here’s the deal
revenge is not a one and done
they’ll hunt you down ‘til kingdom come
and even once you’re dead and gone
they’ll trash your name, decry your wrongs
made up or real, it matters not
the point is that it’s not forgot
if you have kids woe to them all
they’ll bear the brunt after you fall
of fabricated, vague connects
there’ll be no end to hate unchecked
until their vapid soul descends
to bitter hell to join their friends
lamenting each raw deal endured
how they were blameless, never heard
how sad that innocents have borne
their cruelty and vicious scorn
vile to the core, intent to destroy
sad little men who act like boys

~kat


Today was a cacophony of horribles. The revenge tour has commenced by raiding the home and office of one of the top persons on the enemy list ( that they claim doesn’t exist ), the testimony of maxwell, the evil sex trafficker was released, sort of…selectively…everyone and no one did anything unseemly to young girls, or so this convicted criminal perjurer says…a military official who made the mistake of accurately reporting that damage done by trumps supposed bombing and annihilation of Iran’s nuclear stockpile was fired today, the Epstein files…remember those? The deadline came and went and congress finally received a stack of previously released documents…nothing new to see here folks…all while the national guard troops wandering the streets in the capital will now be armed…what could possibly go wrong…and coming soon to a democratic city near you…hey there Chicago…and you too New York. Did I miss anything….honestly this all happened today…oh and the supreme leader has traded in his maga hat for a new message…”Trump was right about everything”…of course, whatever you say Donnie boy. It’s easy to be right about everything when you fire all the truth tellers and rewrite history. Don’t even go there…what they’re planning to do to our Smithsonian artifacts and history…that was yesterday’s news. There is no way around it folks. The worse things that could happen, have.

It’s happening. The final labored breaths of democracy. I’m not sure how to act. The sun still rose today. I logged in to work like i do every day. Deer and turkeys and hummingbirds wandered by my window. My African violet popped out another flower. Maybe that’s the point. In the midst of a horrible, awful day, nature reminds me that life goes on…I need to focus on the day. It’s likely to get worse before it gets better. But it’s a waste of living to worry about it. There is air to be breathed, the music of the wind to lose myself in, and to dance. Everything else is noise.

Much love, peace and glimmers to you.

~kat ✨✨✨💚💚💚✨✨✨

I know I vacillate between doom and joy these days. With today being heavy on the doom. It’s just reality. Not pretty right now, but I feel called to use this space to document what is happening…should anyone read my words at some future date….but for glimmers…that’s how I intend to get to the other side.

This young female cardinal, resting in the heat of the day. August 22, 2015. ~kat ✨✨✨💚💚💚✨✨✨

And Mr Bean…just because. 🥰