Creative Meanderings

My ramblings and wanderings through life

  • One of the challenges to having married someone with a birthday in early December is having to wait to start the Christmas decorations and celebrations! Although we had much different plans for Christmas this year, there is no point in wallowing in the “what could have been” mindframe. Instead, we are here now and should enjoy the season. Therefore, as will be forever our tradition, December 13th means the beginning of the true…

  • It is hard to believe that I have only known this man for just over three years. Somehow we started a tradition for his birthday in me making him pottery pieces. The first year he must have requested shortly after we met the casserole/casale dishes and by some miracle I finished them in time. December 2014 Shortly after his birthday the first year, he put in a request for a jug for “mead”.…

  • Just over a year of serious yoga study from practice to philosophy has come to an end. It is only the first chapter of my yoga story, but very significant. When I was feeling miserable doing my job and wondering at the future of my career in TESOL, I received an email about becoming a yoga teacher focusing on therapeutic yoga. Making an impulsive decision to go for it and having no idea…

  • Last night I cried and ranted at my husband. There was no trigger other than his caring kindness forcing me to explode. 😜 It was an important day – I’ll write on that tomorrow – and I did not feel joy but sadness. It frustrated me to not want to jump up and down for joy. Instead I just felt sadness. When I got home my amazing man had prepared a bath for…

  • My yoga teacher said to me in a recent Whatsapp conversation  “I think ur just not a socializer…. I think ur an artist. U need to write and be alone a lot”. True? Indeed. I very quickly have gotten burnt out with the networking activities for business. Now, I know that people say that you cannot wait for the clients to come to you; you have to get yourself out there and promote yourself; talk…

  • I think a short while back I wrote about a quote I had seen saying not to give up until you find your tribe because it is out there. I cannot recall when that was to link up here, but anyway, I am certain I at least made a comment somewhere recently. In having changed my life completely with marriage, quitting work and trying to start my own business, I have lost my…

  • Seems like most days this is how we are hanging on. Although a fog has lifted from my mind the past couple of days, I feel as if the strength I have in me is weak and fragile. Each day I wake up a little happier, but then something can be said or read or done and I struggle with the possible spiral that will shift my mood downwards. It is a constant…

  • Well, winter is definitely here. The past few days or even the past week has brought in the moisture with increased humidity and foggy mornings. As I write this now, my view is becoming greyer and greyer. There are times when I think about my Oregon life and wonder why I do not live there. Then, days like this come along and while everyone else might be reveling in the change of weather…

  • My husband said this to me on the way out the door this morning due to my seemingly worsening mood/state of mind. First off the season is changing. I know that sounds strange in a place like AD, but truly there are more clouds, it is getting cooler and I think there was even some sort of moisture in the air yesterday or the day before. 😛 So, it is indeed becoming ‘winter’…

  • For a few months I have been processing in my mind what and where my faith has gone. Over the past year of yoga teacher training, I have discovered the gift of meditation and seen a woman of strong faith fight to believe in the sutras – philosophical texts – because she cannot reconcile that the sutras are like the Bible – guides for a way of life. Since the end of my…

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