Write your guide to setting healthy boundaries in relationships.
boundless
before you even ask I will offer myself in service to you… prompted, i have no choice but to tell you, I’m here if you need me, or even if you don’t, though secretly I hope you do because I need to be needed which is why boundaries to me are like chalk lines on pavement on rainy day or ice cubes in warm water I am severely distracted by need… advice you ask? Well, I’m no expert but I have heard it’s a simple two letter word no… unfortunately I can’t bear the thought of uttering it, but if you give it a go please let me know how it went
~kat
I have a few little glimmers for you…the first is one of my squirrel friends noshing on nuts, perfectly framed by a pair of moon flowers plants. Forgive the graininess of the photo. I was across the yard when I spotted him. Of course I had to take a photo!
And the second glimmer…the first cuttings from my little raised herb garden. There is a certain satisfaction that comes from growing something green!
Kindness Is Not Defeat. Never Escalate… Smile Softheartedly
~kat
My simple acrostic poem in answer to today’s daily WP prompt…my answer…kindness. I am dipping my toe back into the inkwell. I know it’s been a while. Suffice to say that planning and pulling off a surprise milestone party that you needed to know about because your lovely partner who planned the whole thing is wheelchair bound and generally unable to pull the final prep off without assistance, is exhausting! I said it a decade or so ago…getting old is not for sissies! I had NO clue back then…add to that the added stress of keeping the ruse and acting surprised…and the biggest part…the reality…the gravity of realizing that people my age are dropping like flies and the fact that I’m still here must mean something. Well I’ve spent long enough staring at my naval and I plan to get back on the saddle…though it takes a few tries and a stepladder these days. The muse has graciously let me recharge, and soak in every glimmer and wonder. I’ve saved them to share with you all. I do hope you’re doing well. It’s hard not to freak out at the state of the world ala a rapidly imploding trump. But there is encouragement to be found as the sleepy lemmings begin waking up from their stupor.
Be kind to yourself and to others my friends, and most importantly look for the daily glimmers to sustain you!
Much love, peace, and glimmers to you. Here’s mine for today. I have started noticing sunrises these days…new beginnings seems to be the theme. 🥰
~kat
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Early morning sun……bursting through the trees…You never know what you’ll find if you look a wee bit deeper! 😉
Another Musette…they are harder to write than they may look! Consists of 3 stanzas/3 lines each/ syllable count each line: 2-4-2/rhyme scheme: aba cdc efe/title reflects the poems content.
Sometimes glimmers take me by surprise. For instance the golden patch of dead pine needles on an Eastern Red Cedar sapling. It caught my eye as I walked by. A simple reminder of death in the midst of spring’s greening splendor all around. How fragile and brief life is. How resilient that sapling is as it pushes green shoots toward the sky. How grateful I am to be here, to witness beautiful life (and death) all around me. I have witnessed nearly 70 Springs and counting. Life is a glimmering blink, isn’t it?
Annoying! You know I’m busy…now is not the time! The presentation, that we just found out about THIS MORNING, is due by COB today…TODAY! And there are eight people in five different time zones that need to get their slides to me to complete the task, make it look presentable for tomorrow’s 9 am ET meeting…by COB!!! And I’m already SOL…COB came and went…it’s tomorrow already in Shanghai! But it’ll be okay…that guy never sleeps…I need coffee!
You need jasmine tea my dear…a twist of lemon or a dash of clover honey, or both… or your favorite, Sir Earl with a dollop of sweet cream…
What I NEED is for YOU to be quiet!!! Go find yourself a dark corner and brood. Do that tortured thing you do…disappear and torment me when I need you! Where was I? Coffee…send the template to the team, remind them that I need their slide BEFORE COB…so in other words NOW…sorry Barcelona…
You’re missing it…
WHAT? WHAT NOW!?!!!
the dawn…golden streams of light, dew-kissed leaves fluttering, a soft breeze transforming them into amber and emeralds, the trill of robins fading as wrens, thrushes, and sparrows pick up the chorus, the jays and crows bellowing, doves cooing… you’re missing it…
WHAT I’M MISSING IS MY DEADLINE IF I DON’T GET ON WITH IT!!! I’ve seen decades of dawns…three slides done, five to go, the usual dawdlers…it’s going to be a long night…
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two more loaded, edited for typos, formats polished, table of contents and the appendix updated…
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and another slide…go team! we might just make that deadline!…wait…what? cancelled?! It’s 4 pm! “Someone” decided the ask was unreasonable given the complexity of the project…the meeting is moving to next week?!!! I need a break!!! I’m going to call it a day…a wasted day at that…uh hello? It’s almost sunset…
hellooooo?
okay…I get it…I’m sorry…
…really sorry… exhausted…
I
need
sleep
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What? …Who? …Oh, it’s you…ARE YOU SERIOUS!!! It’s 3 am!
I love the quiet at night, don’t you? I forgive you my darling. Now, about that sunset I missed… tell me about it, won’t you? I want to know every magnificent detail…
~kat
And that’s a wrap…30 poems in 30 days. Today’s final Na|GloPoWriMo 2026 Day 30 Prompt: try writing your own poem that discusses a real or mythical being or profession (demons, firefighters, demonic firefighters) with the same sort of musing yet dispassionate tone.
And today’s glimmer is my loyal shadow Gabby…always over my shoulder, next to me, or underfoot. I cherish every day the fates allow me to have her company.
occasionally I give in and ignore my aversion to colorful bouquets of cut flowers from the grocery store, even though I know that they will die an ugly death on my dining room table…in fact, I know they are already dead, having been plucked in their prime, mid-bloom to entertain and inspire people like me who don’t have time enough to frolic in fragrant wildflower fields, to lie down in tall grass imagining the clouds overhead to be great whales, angel wings, bears, or back-lit portals to the unknown, or heaven, who knows? before disappearing into mist and blue. … I trim the dry stem edges and arrange each flower in a vase filled with warm water and life support crystals, admiring my creation, how lifelike they appear while deceiving myself into believing that they’re not already gone, reminding me as they fall limp, petals dropping silently on the table, the water in the vase turning sour, that it was the illusion of life I had hoped to capture…the truth is just a rude reminder I will die one day like those doomed dead flowers…it’s been a long time, I muse to myself, since I frolicked amidst wildflowers on a sunny afternoon…too long… sometimes it feels like that girl is already gone too … I hope it is not an ugly death when it happens, I could just silently fade away but not before I plant my feet at least once more in cool soil in the middle of a field of tall grass and wildflowers, while shapeshifting clouds float by overhead…”don’t mind me”, I’ll tell passersby, I’m just silly old woman who buys cut flowers from the grocery store for the girl who loved them
~kat
Na|GloPoWriMo 2026~Day 29 Prompt: In your poem today, similarly compare your everyday present life with your past self, using specific details to conjure aspects of your past and present in the reader’s mind.
It’s been raining for two days. I am awash in vibrant deep green and slate gray skies…glimmers are even more needed now to fend off my tendency for SAD. Not even a sunset to bright my spirits this evening… 😢 I was beginning to think I might need to hunt through old photographs to find a glimmer…and then I saw a tiny dark shadow flutter outside my window. There on the new feeder I had purchased this year with a clear acrylic umbrella was a young hummingbird facing away from the sugar wells, taking in the rain, safe and under cover! It made me so happy! Proving to me once again that I don’t need to find glimmers…I just need to notice them. ✨✨✨💚💚💚✨✨✨
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