Creative Meanderings

My ramblings and wanderings through life

  • There’s a lovely breeze blowing with a light crisp autumn chill that refreshes rather than cools the mind. I sit with a warm cup of coffee made fresh this morning by the routine of a family that is not mine and yet indeed is. The sounds of the day begin to move faster as the world around awakens ready to trudge through the greyness that no one finds joyful. Yet between the shades…

  • Well, it has indeed been a while since I last posted This Week’s Workouts as I have been rather sporadic in my workout routine. Also, not having a gym makes it more challenging. Although I do tend to walk quite a bit every day, this maintains my weight but does not do much for tone or my idea of ‘fitness’. Therefore, as I set out to do early last week, I have gone…

  • It has now been two months since we left the desert and all that life there encompassed. The last year or so proved to be the most challenging of times because living outside of the bubble, that most expats survive in to convince themselves that being there is worthwhile, causes your eyes to open and never be shut again. While we may have read stories in the papers or heard them from third,…

  • Although I have been quiet here with my up and down pattern of writing or promising to write regularly again, I did manage to get an article written last month for April Magazine. This is the beginning of a series that I will be writing on Spiritual Wellbeing. In some ways it is rather ironic given my life has gone topsy-turvy lately, but then again perhaps it is just the perspective I need…

  • These days we are so into being ‘busy’ and complain about how we must surely be more ‘tired’ and ‘stressed’ than everyone else. In competing for the worst life situation, we create personalities that never learn how to relax and rest. As an introvert, this is nearly impossible to maintain. Luckily, being regularly considered odd and somewhat ‘eccentric’ provides me the luxury of using it to my advantage. This means that I work…

  • Well, the best laid plans as they say…. I have not quite gotten myself into the right routine just yet. Every time I think that I have a handle on things, something spins me around to distract me from my plans. It seems that the meds are still requiring a bit to get used to. In fact, I have considered going off of them already, but feel that perhaps three months is not…

  • Well, the month has passed by rather quickly. I have found a makeshift sense of routine thanks to the world of cafes and my BFF. Without wifi at home I have to make do with wherever I can find free options. 😉 After spending a number of days sleeping and allowing my brain some peace, I have returned to the ‘adult’ world of getting up at reasonable hours and focusing more on work.…

  • Most of my days involve a visit to a café of some sort – and when I say of some sort, I generally mean Starbucks… 🤣 Life in Tokyo is spent mostly out of the house. There are a few reasons for this. The top being the size of ‘home’ and the distance of ‘home’ from where one works or is playing. At the moment, we fall into the former of these two…

  • We move in circles-Around the sun-Around each other-Around ourselves We walk in winding paths-Towards our fate-Towards that pot of gold-Towards the grave We rush through life-searching for success-searching for love-searching for ourselves We talk-in circles-in winding paths-in a rushing of life Yet we end up where we started, lost on our paths, talking about nothing as life rushes us by. What have we found?What have we missed?What have we achieved? ~TAugust 10, 2017

  • A new sense of normal is finding its way back to my life. I am walking outside again. I am listening to music again. I am writing again. I am smiling more. I am finding happy places. I am hopeful and excited again. How long has it been since I felt this way? What was missing? Or rather, what was holding me back? There is still a cloud that hangs over me. This…

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