The year of 2025 held major physical and mental transitions. I gained a new medical diagnosis, changed my job, and moved house 150+ miles away. It was 100% the right move for me to do, but it definitely had a …
LEVEL-UP! The Essence of Green – Feb + Mar 2021
“Anyone can love a thing ‘because’. That’s as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something ‘despite’: to know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect.” – Patrick Rothfuss February was interesting. We …
LEVEL-UP! The Essence of Green – January 2021
“Winter fights valiantly to hold the land. The earth and the sky are grey, leaden, and heavy with the cold. But here and there, scattered like jewels in the sodden grass, the first slender tips of daffodils start up toward the growing Sun. Something in us stirs …
The Essence of Green for 2020-2021 Transition
Farewell, 2020. Part of me want’s to leave that there and just jump to 2021, but 2020 was a big year for my personal development – mostly in the last 3 months of the year, but it all counts. Also, …
Book Reviews of 2020 :: Part III
Quarter Four has arrived. 2020 is close to over. My first two reviews can be found here (part 1) and here (part 2). 8 down, 4 to go for my goal of 12… Let’s see how we did. ~ November …
My Own Rooted Reinvention
Well. The last few years have been… interesting. I haven’t been consistent here since Jan 2019. I haven’t been a WRITER (in my own eyes) since before then. This is clear from my weekly posts dropping down to 18 in …