Category Archives: Essays

November 5, 2025

day 306

By Kat Myrman

Do you need time?

Do you need time?

I need time 
to heal
to feel full
and whole
to embrace 
what is real
and true 
and good
to stop
apologizing 
for being different
a black sheep
for being me
because
I am enough
not too much
just right 
and it’s taken
a lifetime to see
no one gets to choose
what I need
who I am
how I live
but me

~kat

I am recovering my friends, from surgery. The cancer that interrupted my busy life is now disposed of as bio waste. I don’t miss it of course even if it took a bit of flesh with it. I feel grateful for the ease with which a good doctor was able to remove it. But today I am tired. My body is telling me take time to rest. You’ve been overdoing life for long enough…rest. Sleep. You’ve earned. You deserve it. You have always deserved time for you…just you. And so I pass along this bit of wisdom to you. Take time to rest, to recharge, to heal whatever it is that needs healing in your life. You deserve it. Just because.

Much love, peace, and healing glimmers to you. Yes you.

~kat ✨✨✨💚💚💚✨✨✨

Thriving transplanted African Violets
Sago Pine babies blooming after surgery of dead fronds
My inspiration for healing

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October 30, 2025

day 302

By Kat Myrman

What’s something you believe everyone should know.

open minds

never stop learning
we don’t know what we don’t know
fools insist they do

~kat

I attended a social event recently. The table conversation was quite enlightening and disturbing. (I didn’t say much…just listened). People declared such outrageous things with such confidence and assurance of validity of their truth! It was shocking. Their remarks were right out of a certain propaganda playbook. I used to think that intelligent people surely saw right through the lies and what’s happening in our country and the world. But I was mistaken in that assumption. My wife corrected me when we spoke about it after I got back home.

“Educated does not always mean intelligent,” she remarked. Wow! That perfectly explained it. There’s a reason I limit my time in public and prefer the company of deer, squirrels, crows, and trees.

Much love, peace, and glimmers to you!

~kat

Today’s glimmer is the view out my window as I work. I love autumn! 🍂🍁✨💚✨🍁

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October 29, 2025

day 300

By Kat Myrman 
the circus

the elephant is sitting 
in the middle of the room
having left its corner though
no one seemed to notice…
an elephant is no small thing
but we were distracted
by flying monkeys and rats,
so many rats, termites gnawing 
through the walls, ants and roaches 
reducing the foundation to dust
it was the elephant 
in the middle of the room…
an elephant is no small thing,
perched on a pedestal,
a blue ball balanced 
vicariously on his snout
that held our attention
as the walls came tumbling down

~kat

I need a glimmer. When this happens I head to the hills…(out my back door) and dear Mother Nature draws me in. She’s fading these days into gold, orange and crimson, as if to say, kat, what you really need is a good long nap. I’m not entirely convinced that is a good idea with winter’s blight closing in. But she shushes me with a lullaby as soft as new fallen snow, and whispers as I drift to sleep…spring is coming.

and just like that…in my dreams the circus disappeared, as circuses do, leaving only sawdust in its wake…

Much love, peace, and glimmers to you. ~kat ✨✨✨💚💚💚✨✨✨

Autumn in the Blue Ridge Foothills ~kat 2025

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October 28, 2025

day 299

By Kat Myrman

Describe a family member.

in the aftermath…where heroes emerge 

she is
I refuse to dwell
on who she was…
strong, full of life,
because she is
all of that still
though muted by adversity 
the injustice of incompetence
of a system that values profit
over people, bottom lines
over excellence
a system that moves on from oops
to oh well…good luck…next…
there’s nothing more
we can do for you

these days, she lives with
unbearable, relentless pain
these days, she still manages 
to smile, to give, to care,
I have thought, and even
said out loud on occasion,
I don’t know how she does it
but that’s not true, I know…
because she is…
strong, full of life,
and that is all you or me, 
or anyone needs to know

~kat

My wife has CRPS brought on by an act of medical neglect…incompetence, that has changed our life and plans forever. They call CRPS the suicide disease. For a reason.

Over the past several years as we have made our way through the stages of grief for what we thought was our plan for the future, to settling in to what I had called the new normal. Silly me. There is nothing normal about living with a debilitating disease that brought everything that we thought we knew to a full stop. It has taken a while for us to realize that while everything changed around us, we didn’t. In fact, we grew stronger.

These days, I’ve stopped looking back, determined to make each moment count. Like everyone we have bad days and good. These days the good days taste even sweeter, and glimmer even brighter…because…life.-

Much love, peace, and glimmers to you!

~kat

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My Glimmer…

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October 26, 2025

day 298 ~ A ReVerse Poem

By Kat Myrman 
A ReVerse Poem ~ 26 October 2025

roots of grass
in horror, the world sees our once great nation fall
I was so hoping 
the pain, the cruelty, the hate…
it’s hard to tell, to imagine the peril we're  in
there is no limit (to)
the price I’d pay to send away
a certain orange man with tiny hands,
never trust a fool

~kat

Gentle Sunday to you. I’d like to imagine that we’ve seen the worst of it. That things will get better, but I know that’s wishful thinking on my part. Already the landscape and landmarks that chronicled the centuries old history of this nation have been irrevocably destroyed, dumped onto the dustheap of failed governments. 

But we the people are still here. We’re not going away.  Compassion, peace, respect, kindness and liberty are worth fighting for. 

And finally…last week wasn’t a complete disaster. Just look at those glimmers!

Much love, peace, and glimmers to you! 

~kat

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A ReVerse poem (a practice I started many years ago) is a summary poem with a single line lifted from each entry of a collection of work over a particular timeframe and re-penned in chronological order as a new poem. Unlike a collaborative poem, the ReVerse features the words of one writer, providing a glimpse into their thoughts over time. I use it here as a review of the past week.

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