-
Let’s play, spot the glasses.
My friend Joanna is the Goddess of small lost things. I am her understudy. Last Spring when I was doing some gardening I lost my glasses. I didn’t miss them until I came back inside, so had no idea in which part of the garden I’d lost them. They were not my good glasses, just…
-
A Short Guide to a Happy Life: Anna Quindlen on Work, Joy, and How to Live Rather Than Exist
This is too good not to share. I wish I had said it. – Ardys Re-blogged from Brainpickings by Maria Popova “You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are.” The commencement address is a special kind of modern communication art, and its greatest masterpieces tend to either become a…
-
If wishes were horses…
Today is the 25th Anniversary of the Web. How time flies. I have had a personal computer (Mac) for 27 years. Of course I didn’t start using the worldwide web until the 90’s, when everyone else did. I was using the computer for design and word processing. I learn something new nearly every day, but…
-
Always look up
My general philosophy is not to blog if I have nothing to say. However… my fingers seem to be itching to tell you something and I’m curious to see what it is, so here we go… The real pleasure-seeking is the combination of luxury and austerity in such a way that the luxury can really…
-
The days are long, the years are short
To live is to grieve Every end, a beginning What are hills with no valleys? Remembering Dad – June 7, 1924 – February 27, 2013
-
Coffee and a story…
I thought I’d share with you my most favourite kitchen device of the moment… But first a little story…about the gentleman who introduced this little gem to me… Mr V. Don and I have both known Mr V since he was our primary school principal. His wife was my first grade teacher, and their daughter…
-
the Christmas tree farm
The traditions of Christmas are many and varied, depending on your cultural heritage and family practice. In our family there was always a fresh cut tree to decorate at Christmas, partly because that was the family business! Tens of thousands of trees have come from the Corsi Tree Farm in southern Ohio. It was started…
-
magical living
Do you know about synchronicity? As I understand it, it is when things fall into place as if they were ‘causal’ related, but they are not. It happens to me often, and I refer to it as ‘meant to be’. It’s my little nod to magical living. This morning I was really puzzling over which…
-
Shaken and definitely stirred!
When I arrived in Australia, 30 years ago, I wanted to continue the practice of gratitude and Thanksgiving in my new home. That was an ambition much easier dreamed, than done. We lived in Darwin, a small, tropical city, population about eighty thousand in those days. I wanted to make as many of the foods…
ardysez 