gratitude

  • Time of Year

    I have such a hard time picking my ‘favourite’ time of year, since I try to appreciate different things at each time of year, each season, each month, or week. There are so many things to enjoy. In terms of seasons, I just love watching Mother Nature change during the…

  • The Journey

    1994: 11 year old Devon. I had always loved art and then we had a project to make a book. We were to write and illustrate a story. My teacher thought mine was really good and had me visit the grade 1 kids and read it to them. 2008: 26…

  • Where I am

    Patience. You are where you are meant to be. Trust. Stop comparing to someone else’s journey. This has been a common theme for me lately. These little messages have shown up in front of my face a few times in the last two weeks. So it has made me pay…

  • Spontaneity

    I am not one for doing something spur of the moment. I like to think through my actions and my options and plan what things I want to do, when. So the fact that I had two evenings in a row of last minute plans pretty much knocks me over….

  • Home Memories

    I overheard Jordan asking Owen, “do you remember how small the kitchen was? And when you sat here [at the counter stools], and held under the counter, you could feel the nails. And we had a bedroom next to mom and dad.” “And we didn’t even have our own rooms,”chimed…