malibumark

the local Starbucks is closed down for renovations for a week and a half.So my regularly scheduled jaunt to get coffee first thing at 5am is changed.I'm usually such a creature of habit but from what...

My Dad came down with a head cold and fever yesterday. We don't know if it's covid but he got tested and we're waiting for the results. He did get vaccinated so we're hopeful that this event will...

Sometimes we gotta draw our own lines and color them in like a coloring book and not take ourselves so seriously. It is what it is.

I'm definitely noticing that when I latch onto a project, nearly all else becomes lost to the project. I guess that's kind of a dramatic way of putting it -but it's the weekend now, it's just the...

ever just want more?

I watched an interview the other day where the issue of divining a path forward in lifefor oneself came up. The person speaking said it in terms like "We're all trying to make a way forward."I...

I need to straighten up my apartment this morning.Just showered and shaved and was feeling exuberant fromwriting a poem and just enjoying the spirit of the day - butnow I have to shift gears - get...

oh quiet morningslowly waking to the sky glowingthe sun rising but not yet seenthe cat hastens the process in search ofhis first mealI wake, I feed, I throw on some clothesand drive to get a...

Blue has been very vocal, more than usual, lately. He is my child and so when he cries I stop what I am doing and tend to him. It's the role of parent that I can't deny. And so here I am with him on...

I was thinking about a lot of things this morning. Self discipline.... Being alone and being happy...and being self sufficient. About doing something for someone else in my life...or for some thing...

today I kept busy in the early start of the day and then had nothing to do, nothing planned,and not the funds to just go and indulge in this consumerist, shop for entertainment, life outhere in the...

I got all my chores done, grocery shopped, folded laundry and made the bed up with clean sheets and duvet.It's 10am and I am thinking about what to do next. I'd like to go out - but I spent my...

It seems the outside world is much bigger than me. Others' goalsand others' energy. Maybe I should just listen to the quietest voice inme to get on with both my personal agenda and also my...

I woke up this morning, at first feeling calm and just uncomplicated by the morning.I kept with my routine for getting up and dressed and out to the Starbucks for coffeefirst thing. Though I've been...