Creative Meanderings

My ramblings and wanderings through life

  • It has been a while since I have checked in about my ups and downs. Somehow, they seem to be less frequent or, at least, less obvious to me. Perhaps, I should ask my husband, though! 😛 Actually, with my middle-aged body changes, I really don’t know if my moods and energy levels are related to hormones or the bipolar tendencies. What I do know is that I need to maintain balance and…

  • A conversation with a friend has stayed with me when she once asked her father why he didn’t force her to learn Spanish even though it was her parents’ mother tongue. She shared her father’s response as: he was too busy trying to make a living and needing English to care for the family that it was up to her to learn the language or not.  Along the same vein, I have often…

  • Cancerian Red Dragon. Oh, and I’m an INTJ. You may not be a believer of horoscopes or zodiac characters or the Myers-Briggs personality types. You may be one to say that every horoscope or description of a ‘type’ can fit just about anyone. Or, you may just not like being typecast to fit into one stereotype. The reality is that whether we like it or not, we do fit into certain sets of…

  • It’s been a number of years since I noticed that I was suffering from numbness and tingling in my extremities. It was always more noticeable after I had imbibed too much, so I chalked it up to my body’s way of telling me to lay off on the vice. However, as time went on, I’d feel numbing now and then even when I hadn’t drank anything. Still, rather than think anything of it,…

  • My all-time favorite holiday is Thanksgiving. Although there is some controversy in recent years around the origins of the holiday, I ignore all the politicking of it and focus on what it means to me. Some people argue that they like Christmas better because, in the US, it’s not that much different from Thanksgiving except that we exchange presents. However, for me the consumerism attitude is not necessary. Therefore, I prefer the third Thursday in…

  • When the sun and moon align, people gather together to view the phenomenon with the promise of each time being the ~est in our lifetimes. Yet, it is this equilibrium and balance that awes us and, despite all the fanfare and build up, lasts mere moments. Our life experiences are similar. Though we do not always see the build up or understand the fanfare (aka drama) that we go through, we do live…

  • Sunny days in Japan means that it’s a laundry day. One can see clothes hanging on balconies outside throughout the city. The decision on when to do laundry is not really left to one’s own schedule or choice, but is instead determined by the whims of nature. In this, I ponder a parallel in wondering how much free choice we truly have, or are we already fulfilling what the universe has determined that…

  • This week has been #singlelife for me as M is away visiting family. It’s the first time in almost two years that we have been apart for so long or without stress related to our time apart. Even though I obviously miss him, it has been a fruitful time for me.  For a while now, maybe a couple of years, I have felt less like myself despite how I may have appeared on…

  • The other day, I sat outside during my lunch break to enjoy the beautiful cool, but sunny day. I’m sure that last year at this time I lamented about people’s tendency to say that there are no longer four seasons in Japan, and that ‘fall’ is near non-existent. Yet, as I sat outside soaking up the sun under the trees with leaves that are changing color, I would beg to differ (yet again)…

  • Making space by letting go of the past and focusing on that which serves us with love and joy.

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