It’s Civic Holiday Weekend which marks mid-summer in Ontario. What better time to focus on the joy of simple living! Simple living heightens every summer pleasure. As is our summer routine, we spend the precious summer weeks at our cottage. This is the time when our psychic batteries get a re-charge. Our cottage is nestled […]
Enjoying Retirement
Life Narrative After COVID
As our country slowly moves out of pandemic restrictions, it’s a good time to update your life narrative. What is a life narrative? A life narrative is a story that we tell ourselves and others about our life. The story binds together important life events and, thus, influences personality and identity. It provides continuity by […]
Canada Day — Reflection and Celebration
Tomorrow, July 1, is Canada Day. It’s usual to celebrate with flags, beach time, and a family gathering to barbecue. Our cottage homeowners’ association usually has a children’s parade where children ride decorated bikes and scooters, people follow in their antique cars, and farmers bring tractors with hay wagons for rides. We plan to enjoy […]
What Clothes Will I Need After the Pandemic?
As I contemplate the end of the current COVID shutdown in Ontario, I wonder what clothes I will need after the pandemic when everything opens up. Some businesses have re-opened already, although with strict capacity limits; groups of up to 10 people can gather outdoors; restaurants and bars can offer outdoor services with tables limited […]
Can you smell the rain?
I’ve been told that you can smell the rain. When growing up on a Saskatchewan grain farm, we had long periods of summer drought. My father told me that he could smell the rain coming. His experiences as a farmer coupled with keen daily observation of weather patterns may have honed his skill to smell […]
We Live in Liminal Times
Recently, I heard a journalist exclaim that we live in liminal times. Huh? What’s a liminal time? The online Dictionary defines liminal as relating to a transitional or initial stage of a process. It comes from the Latin word, linen, which means threshold where something is left behind but the cross over to something new is […]
Motherhood and Goslings on our Pond
As a follow-up to the post a week ago showing motherhood and goslings on our pond, I looked for the goose family when walking the path to the river near our house. https://www.postworksavvy.com/motherhood-on-our-pond/ Three or four adult geese swam in the sunshine. As they approached the marshy area near the edge, a noisy skirmish arose. […]
Motherhood on our pond
It’s springtime and here comes motherhood on our pond. Regular readers of my blog know that I’ve been practising the art of noticing as a means of stimulating curiosity and creativity. Paying attention to the music of nature such as mating birdsongs and wind in the trees calms my head that is often filled with useless […]
World Laughter Day
Tomorrow, Sunday May 2, is World Laughter Day. Readers may wonder why I acknowledge something as frivolous as a day for laughter. Given the pandemic isolation that most of us experienced, for more than fourteen months, a good dose of laughter is overdue. More than ever, the world needs a good belly laugh as much […]
Stop Thinking About ‘Before’ Covid Times
Sometimes referred to as BC or Before Covid, I work hard to stop thinking about those ‘before’ times. I’m not sure that it’s useful to spend time longing for the past. It’s now almost 14 months since the pandemic hit Europe and North America. So much is different. Massive changes everywhere have affected us socially, […]
