When it comes to getting my attention this new year, I want to make one thing absolutely clear. Right from the get-go. This year, I refuse to give more than a single minute of my attention to larger-than-life, supremely arrogant, deeply polarising, and morally reprehensible characters like Trump and Musk. You see, the fact isn't … Continue reading Where Should We Place Our Attention This Year?
Here We Go Again! Oh NO! Another year's about to goWhich means I'm going to do it againMusingReflectingPlanning like mad! All the HopesDreamsAmbitions Poured out like vomit Onto my notepad When will I learn to slow it down?Just focus on one or two things andLeave the rest outBut I can'tMy mind's just full of wishes … Continue reading My Monday Metrical Musings #214
Yes siree it's that time of year again for me to hang up my proverbial quill as I wrap up my sixth year of blogging. Typically when December comes around, I try to 'rest' my blog for a month. Not to stop writing mind you. That would be tantamount to creative suicide. In the past … Continue reading Speaking up through blogging & more! A look-back at 2024
Delighting into the New Year Four dads starting a joint Book reading planSon singing the same song in Daddy's headlandLovely morning walk with a trail of antsDelighting into the New Year Carpooling a Kaiser kid too cuteWatching his backseat recline aka Cleopatra lookThen listing his 12 favourite country nooksDelighting into the New Year Scribbling a … Continue reading My Monday Metrical Musings #166
Greetings and a happy new year to you! It's a brand new year for writing and I hope you're as excited as I am for what's in store this year on my blog. For my first essay blog post of 2024, I'm gonna talk about...surprise surprise...writing in the new year. Yet what exactly do I … Continue reading Five years of writing. Five hundred over posts. What’s next?
Advent Musings #5/5 -- Light One spark of lightIs all it takesTo send Darkness a-packing One shred of hopeIs all that's neededTo fill our hearts with longing One moment of peaceIs all our souls requireTo help us re-center our being One note of joyIs all we need to hearTo set our spirits a-soaring One touch … Continue reading My Monday Metrical Musings #165
On this the second last day of 2023, a most eventful year for me, I thought why not pause to recap some major milestones?! It's also a great time to look ahead to what's in store in 2024 as I believe there are more memorable moments to come! Ready? Then, let's go! Remembering 2023 with … Continue reading 2023’s been great. But I believe more’s in store in 2024!
Sonnet: One step at a time Every mountain is climbedOne step at a timeEvery ladder rung mountedOne foot over the other That's what I was toldA thousand years agoYet this new year I'm stillAt the bottom of the hill So what's a man to doAt the bottom of a hillBut pick himself upDust himself off … Continue reading My Monday Metrical Musings #114
Not again!! Not again!!2022 to 3 to 4 to...How do they do it?One passing the torchTo the next in a splitRunners in a four by one hundredBlazing past meWithout warningWithout pausingOnly moving ever forwardIn ever-expanding concentric circlesAnd dragging meRight alongKickin'Screamin'"LET GO OF ME! LET!" I wanna stay behindThere are things in the old year still … Continue reading My Monday Metrical Musings #113
Here we are. The start of November. I don't know about you but each time I think of November, I think of it as a temporary pit stop while we hurtle our way to the end of one year and the start of another. Look at it any way you like, but November isn't a … Continue reading November is here. Time to pause before the cheer?
