I attended my first writing class last week filled with nervous anxiety, excitement and wonder. I had so much fun! Now I’ve got a homework assignment that I’m working on and still wondering what to focus my writing energies on. I’m attending ‘The Writer’s Workshop’ at the Good Shepherd Center in the Wallingford neighborhood of…
Category: Ponderings
The Magician
I entitled this collage, ‘The Magician’ because it feels like the circus to me 🙂 It reminds me to not take my self too seriously (something I forget about), to embrace life and all its magical mystery, and to let go of my own presupposed assumptions, plans and over planning. I love the images that…
Chronic Sinusitis
My 16 year old daughter has been battling a sinus infection since December, 2010. This is now considered chronic sinusitis. I’ve taken her  to a variety of M.D.’s who have been helpful (this is not a rant about western/eastern medicine). She’s been on various rounds of antibiotics, had a CT scan done (which was helpful…
24th Anniversary
Yesterday, May 22, 2011, Dave and I celebrated our 24th anniversary. Congratulations to us for continuing to like each other, navigate our relationship and have fun along the way! We’ve lived in 9 different houses or apartments throughout our years together, and various different cities: Vancouver, Novato, Larkspur, San Anselmo, San Rafael, Seattle and Lake…
A Writer’s Retreat
I’ve entered a contest in hopes of winning a free spot @jenlouden’s #WritersRetreat. Â http://ht.ly/4Pwka. Kacye Hughlett at Diamonds in the Soul forwarded me the information on this retreat. I was immediately captured by the title of the retreat: ‘Luscious, Nurturing, Get your writing done while laughing your butt off and maybe crying a little too…
Journey
When I first composed this soul collage I was pondering my own feelings of disorientation around some issues that were surfacing in my life. At the time I also wrote, on the back of the collage, that this was an expression of the journey I find myself on. The journey of writing, collaging and expressing…
When I die
I attended a funeral this past weekend which has prompted my reflection upon my own death, which will happen,hopefully later than sooner, but which is an inevitable event that will take place in my lifetime. The man whose life we remembered was my age. He left on this earth a wife, and three children between…
My Canadian roots
I have the amazing privilege of being a dual citizen. I was born and raised in Vancouver, B.C. and lived there until I was the grand age of 25. Dave and I moved to Novato, CA (half hour north of San Francisco) in the spring of 1989 and lived there until January of 1997 when…
Threshold space
I like the way Father Richard Rohr articulates the ‘threshold space’ : ‘Limen is the Latin word for threshold. A liminal space is the crucial in-between time, when everything actually happens and yet nothings appears to be happening. It is the waiting period when the cake bakes, the movement is made, the transformation takes place.’…
Tilly, Tucker and Jessie
The above slideshow is a selection of photos that I have of my grandparents: Tilly and Tucker Battle, and Jessie Heaney. My grandmother, Tilly  was quite a character. She was an artist, traveler and loved to host and attend parties. I didn’t know her that well but remember her bringing gifts home for me from…
KFC and Little House on the Prairie
One of my favorite television shows to watch when I was a child was, ‘Little House on the Prairie’. I loved Laura Ingalls Wilder and imagined myself being like her when I grew up. She was feisty, fierce, passionate and adventuresome. On Monday nights my dad would head over to our neighbors house and watch…
Two bald eagles
Two bald eagles just flew right over my house.  They both flew close together, low to the roof of my house, then up  and over my neighbors towards Lake Washington. Eagles speak to me of the presence of God. Years ago, I was spending time on Savory Island in Canada when a young bald eagle…
Sharon Richards 