Musings about life… Buddhism, updates on my health, time spent around our gardens in spring, summer and fall, bike rides, new recipes I am trying and other topics that catch my attention.
For the past few years, I have been on a decluttering mission. Prior to moving from Victoria, we had already begun working on living a more clutter free life. When we moved to Collingwood, we had multiple garage sales…
I’ve been spending time working on re-creating my life over the past five years and came across these 8 Habits. They are borrowed from a Harvard Study, which found that we can control eight big decisions in our lives…
Change happens one small step at a time. If you do something good for yourself each and every day, you’ll be amazed at where you soon find yourself. Every decision makes a difference. Every moment is a fresh chance…
2022 was the year we all tentatively left our homes and attempted to regain a semblance of control over our lives after two years of Covid and we tried our best to get busy again. In January, we visited…
As Christmas and New Years Day nears, I want to take a moment to consider gratitude. Appreciate Everything. The habit of being grateful starts with appreciating every good thing in life and recognizing that there is nothing too small…
For those of you who don’t know, I’ve had a few surgeries on my left shoulder after multiple dislocations in my late teens and early twenties, until there came a point that after a pick-up touch football game along…
One of the things I have come to enjoy during this new phase in my life of not having to go to work is the ongoing landscaping development in our yard. It’s something I missed more than I thought…
Early July of 2022 found us all getting dressed up for the first time in several years to attend an old friends family wedding. It was an occasion I wanted us to cherish, because, as we age, there are…
So this retirement thing is finally kicking in. It’s been a bit of a bumpy road due to having to fight off the cancer I was diagnosed with at 63 but so far, after surgery, radiation and two years…
The First Step in Creating a New Life is to Get Rid of Everything you Don’t Want. Long before my cancer diagnosis, I worked to declutter my part of our lives. It’s important to me emotionally. It makes me…