Category Archives: Random Thoughts and Musings

snowflakes

Okay…this is just a random thought. It’s late and I should probably be tucking myself in. But…I just discovered how to turn the snowflakes on. How cool is that?

So…guess what i’ve been doing for the last 5 minutes? 5 minutes is a long time when it’s late and I have work in the morning and dishes to load the in the dishwasher and dogs to take out for their potty break…but I digress.

Here I sit, scrolling my mouse from right to left…and left to right, because I discovered when I do that, the snowflakes fall in a new direction. There they go…left…now right…and…left again…and…you get the picture. Did I mention I caught myself doing this for 5 minutes?

I’d like to think I’m not the only one who got lured into doing this. So come on WordPress buddies…fess up. How many of you have done the same thing?

I think I might need an intervention.

Peace out…but only after I give the snowflakes a few more directional shifts…

kat 🙂


Newsfeed

It’s been a productive day…chores done, a flash of fiction penned and a resurrected poem from the vaults that needed a bit of tweaking. Like the one here. Not surprisingly, I am plastered to my computer screen…scrolling, trolling and thinking to myself…I need a LIFE! Haha! I am hooked. It is my love of reading I tell myself, why I flip back and forth in my browser from WordPress Reader to Facebook Wall. Living a distance from my grown children and my grandchildren are one of the reasons why I can’t stay away. That’s what I tell myself. In fact, the flashing blue screen is a guilty obsession. I do have a life waiting for me on the other side of the door…but first…just one more look…;)

blank fb wall
Like a beast to
the trough I sift
through the backwash
of drivel and banter.
A daily practice in search
of things worth liking.
To be be inspired,
affirmed and yes, even
provoked and to enjoy
an occasional LOL.
Faceless Book of
smoke and mirrors!
Try as I may
I cannot resist.
To like or not to like?
There is no question.
Only longing
for authenticity ‘midst
the dross of human
experiences that post
incessantly to my
useless wall, for it
keeps nothing out.
Seductive graffiti
masquerading
as news…feed.
kat ~ 13 December 2015

Sunday’s Week in Verse – 13 December 2015

Happy Sunday! This week’s collection of verse is a bit odd but there are a few take-aways. I started off the week inspired by nature and then suddenly it t seems slid down a slippery slope surrounded by wolves being wolves and cake! Let them eat cake, I say…or chocolate! Because at the end of the day it’s all about balance, paying attention and remembering that we are all in this together…this mad crazy world of ours. And the most important thing? Truth. It is like a candle in the wind. We should protect it even if it’s hard…or risk the light going out.

Phew! That was a brain-full. Thank goodness for this day of rest. Next week is bound to be full of lessons too, I am sure if it. But for today, I think I’ll just simmer on this a bit. My wish for you? Gentleness on your journey, wherever life leads you.

Peace out..for now! ❤️

Sunday’s Week in Verse – 13 December 2015

Nature’s perfection inspires us all!
a lover of many…and none
brain-freeze karma sucks.
must have a pallet for sweets
chocolate optional.
To achieve balance
Practice saying, “No.”
I promise I won’t laugh!”
Wouldn’t you like to be a fly near that café table.
we are part of the human race that includes all the peoples of the world…not just our little corner of it.
“Home looked smaller than she remembered.”
She loved cockadoodle-dooing!
‘Tis a fortnight I am told…
from madness to muse.
Truth is like a candle in the wind for those who refuse to see it.

~kat

If you’re new to this blog, a bit of background to explain the verse above. It is a line from each poem or prose from the previous week. Lifted and placed in the order written. A snapshot review of the week that helps me to prepare for the upcoming week with a clean the slate. 


Sunday’s Week in Verse – 6 December 2015


Such a range of emotion! An ode to the changing of seasons! I find that I revel in the summer as if it will never end and languish in Winter wondering when it will. But it is the transition seasons that pierce my heart most deeply. The Spring with her exuberant regalia, life in full bloom and Autumn with her graceful, letting go. I learn my greatest lessons from the in between.

The trees are now bare as the frost clings tightly to sleepy limbs and blades of fading green, trumpeting the coming season of rest. As if to say thorough darkening days, breathe deeply, close your eyes and settle in. We follow nature’s lead unconsciously this time of year, draped in the ambience of twinkling lights and warm hearth’s glow. Time to rest our weary heads and surrender to the dream.

A gentle Wintering to you!

Sunday’s Week in Verse – 6 December 2015

I wonder if she remembers the spring.
though I do miss the smell of crayons!
“Don’t think! You’ll only make it worse!
”
crowned by raven locks.
unlike their hoary siblings,
simply black and white.
it’s wise not to blink.
she scales richter’s heights.
she hated green paint.
She’ll slumber now through frost’s first kiss.
…step off the edge without a net
In a million small ways, she inhabits his days
“Oh yeah, I was born for this!”
I won’t notice you, because I will be DANCING!
YOU CAN RELY ON IT
…giving voice to things, and being authentic…
here, surrounded by wild flowers and roses.
bust a jit crazy
I couldn’t let this day pass
Get up my pretty girl.
Don’t be deceived by her fragility.
Life is a gift
*Silence*
drawn to light, eye to keyhole.

~ kat

If you’re new to this blog, a bit of background to explain the verse above. It is a line from each poem or prose from the previous week. Lifted and placed in the order written. A snapshot review of the week. It helps me to prepare for the upcoming week with a clean the slate. 


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