Friendship-2 on Late Blooms

Friendship

Sun, 06 Aug 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Do you know that International Friendship Day is August 6th? This is a wonderful time to reflect on the important role that friendship plays in our lives. We need our friends just as much as they need us. When I thank one of my dear friends for anything, and I voice how special her friendship is to me, she always says: “It’s a mutual fan club.” We both appreciate each other.

Resilience

Mon, 29 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000

“Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.” (Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free)

Resilience is one of those words that I don’t quite understand, especially in relation to myself. When I’ve seen it in other people or heard other people describe resilience, it’s always been in the face of some terrible situation or happening that has taken place or is presently happening in a person’s life. The person speaking usually says of the person experiencing this event or situation that: “he/she is resilient and can get through this” or some similar cliche. Two phone calls I had this past week have given me reason to think about how resilient we are all called to be in this life.

Valentine Hearts Day

Sat, 13 Feb 2016 00:00:00 +0000

[caption id=“attachment_2848” align=“aligncenter” width=“800”] In our deepest moments of struggle, frustration, fear, and confusion, we are being called upon to reach in and touch our hearts. Then, we will know what to do, what to say, how to be. What is right is always in our deepest heart of hearts. It is from the deepest part of our hearts that we are capable of reaching out and touching another human being. It is, after all, one heart touching another heart.
- Roberta Sage Hamilton[/caption]

An Artist Friend and Neighbor

Wed, 26 Nov 2014 00:00:00 +0000

[caption id=“attachment_2261” align=“aligncenter” width=“584”] The artist is a receptacle for the emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web. ~Pablo Picasso[/caption]

A Caring Clown

Tue, 11 Nov 2014 00:00:00 +0000

“The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than of twenty asses laden with drugs.” ~ Thomas Sydenham

The above photo is of my friend, Inge, who is eighty-six years young and a graduate of Ryerson’s Caring Clown Program. The photo is not mine but was one that Ryerson used on their 2013 Brochure for the Program.

For several years Inge’s been telling me about her clowning and especially about her visits with other caring clowns to Nursing Homes. We talked many times about me seeing her all dressed up and taking her picture. It just never happened though.

Breaking the Fast

Fri, 15 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Breakfast Buffet

Rainbow Realm

Enjoyable Edibles

Amazing Abundance

Kitchen Kinship

Falls Force

Ample Aesthetics

Sumptuous Sustenance

Transpired Today

Breakfasts at home are usually cereal with fruit and some kind of bread and protein. Today’s breakfast was an elaborate choice of food - everything from the usual bread, eggs, muffins, bagels, and the like to congee, seafood omelettes, potato pancakes, and Tomato Provencal. That’s just naming a few.