Category Archives: Random Thoughts and Musings

November 30, 2015

Sweet Liberation!

This evening while checking in on my special shape-shifting leaf, i realized it had happened. She spread her wings and let go! I have learned so much from that little leaf, but I think her final lesson may be the greatest one of all…peace and gentle landings to you dear reader.

As rain and chill and darkness fell
She spread her wings to ride the wind!
Attachments shed, in weightless bliss,
She’ll slumber now through frost’s first kiss.
How gracefully she gives herself
Unto her final rest,
Nestled near the heart
of our dear mother’s gentle breast.
Would that I, when that time comes
For me to breathe my last,
Like my gentle friend, the leaf,
embrace my dance with death.
For seasons come and seasons go
Each living thing must die,
But grace abounds to guide us all
into the bye and bye.

Happy Slumber Little Leaf-Bird!

~ kat ~ 30 November 2015

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November 29, 2015

Leaf-Bird Watch

By Kat Myrman

Digitally Remastered Photo by Kat Myrman 2015

Chilling a bit on this rainy Sunday. Took another photo of my shape-shifting leaf from yesterday. She’s still hanging in there. I have a feeling this is going to turn into a daily vigil! We’ll have a celebration when she finally lets go!

In the meantime, this is how I color these days…digitally. Here’s a remastered photo of my new muse. It’s quite relaxing and therapeutic, though I do miss the smell of crayons! I love coloring…and definitely outside the lines. Hope you’re having a great Sunday! 🙂

For a little background on this bird-shaped leaf, click HERE for the rest of the story! 🙂

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November 28, 2015

Sunday’s Week in Review – 29 November 2015

By Kat Myrman

Busy busy week, but I had some time off from work, so some extra opportunities to reflect and write. (My favorite thing to do!)

We lost one of our own this week. The lovely Barbara Beacham who brought us Monday’s Finish the Story Challenge and many inspirational photographs that fueled other flash fiction and poetry challenges. She will be missed. Rest in peace dear lady and love and healing to her family.

And then there was the rest of this week. The world has continued to spin out of control, but there is one constant for all of us. Life. In all its crazy manifestations, life is the muse that fuels our art and the words that we spill out onto the page or blast on our blank computer screens. Life is a precious gift always.

And so we gave thanks here in the U.S. this week for the blessing of life. We’re a rough and raucous lot, we humans, but we can’t do this alone. The good news is, more and more folks are figuring out that we’re in this together. I suspect there may be hope for our kind yet. Call me a dreamer!

With gratitude then, for this forum…for all you lovely souls here, and the families and communities you / we all represent…let’s devote ourselves to being kind to one another. Just once each day. More if you like. The world won’t mind. Peace and Blessings to you! We can do this. 🙂

~ kat ~

Sunday’s Week in Review – 29 November 2015

It’s not that I’m incapable of a logical thought.
her sinister smile was the last thing he saw…
It had been a long journey…
Cats purr and doves coo coo
How easily we lose ourselves
She wanted the sun.
(a) Complicated life
We grumble for more.
…safe from the monsters she didn’t know.
The rousing “Surprise!” gave him his answer.
As a grateful community cheered!
…I think we’ll be safe!
we’ll have plenty of time to simmer …
“Are you gonna miss all this?”
Millions of people do this every day.
Nocturnal creatures
Dementia slowly, insidiously, devoured her mind.
but for now the wind is calling me to dance and it’s going to be fabulous!
Scrabble was her game!

kat ~ 29 November 2015

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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November 28, 2015

Reflections on a Shapeshifting Leaf

By Kat Myrman

While sitting on my porch this morning I caught glimpse of a single leaf clinging to a fragile tree limb that had magically shapeshifted herself into a bird. Can you see it?

I had to smile. I get it. We humans do our own shapeshifting of sorts. The inevitable fading of our youth often motivates us to attempt to delay the aging process. We slather creams on our faces to soften our wrinkles, apply color to our graying manes, squint our way through the morning paper rather than don bifocals, and make silly, age inappropriate fashion statements.

But as I reflected on my friend, the leaf-bird, I couldn’t help thinking. Maybe it’s time to stop clinging to the tree. To spread those wings. To ride the wind. To loop and twirl in glorious freedom and joie de vivre. A spring and summer spent bursting with life deserves this final hurrah! Through it all she weathered storms, sheltered hatchlings, danced in the sun and added her sparkling voice to the wind swept chorus of her sister leaves. That leaf, like me, has one magnificent dance left to dance!

And I am reminded in this moment to embrace my smile lines. They are evidence of a happy life. And my furrowed brow lines too, for I have weathered many storms and survived. Grateful am I for bifocals that help sharpen my view…and keep me from bumping into things. And oh how I love my comfortable clothes…bright colorful sweaters and stretchy blue jeans that loosely drape my softening body, and also my practical flat shoes.

There is wisdom in embracing each season of life…to settling into autumn and relishing in that final hurrah still left in me. Oh yes! This is my season to let loose in unabashed confidence. To appreciate all that has brought me to this place of authenticity. Winter may be coming, but for now the wind is calling me to dance and it’s going to be fabulous!

Oh…and a disclaimer…I may still indulge in coloring my hair…but not the blond of my youth. This season definitely calls for red!😊

kat – 28 November 2015

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November 25, 2015

Full Moon in Gemini

By Kat Myrman

So…I haven’t done this in a while…posted a digitally enhanced photo of the full moon. In part, because it has been RAINING on those nights for the past several months. But this month, the sky is gloriously clear!

This month’s full moon is in Gemini! I have read that it is a good time to look back at where we’ve come from and release what we need to finally let go of, in anticipation of change to come. With winter and the Solstice coming, we’ll have plenty of time to simmer and grow into the new things coming our way.

As I was playing around with the photo I took, I found a mosaic feature on my little phone editing app. It perfectly represents to me the diamond that waits just under the surface. It’s time to shine.

And my geek friends will also be intrigued that the graphic took the form of a fibonacci sequence…how SERENDIPITOUS!!! 🙂 (If you know me, you know how much l love that word!)

Happy Thanksgiving to my fellow U.S. wordpressers then. Perfect time to look around the table of your heart, count your blessings and look forward to the next year! Peace to you! 🙂

kat ~ 25 November 2015

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