I've been thinking quite a bit about the small things in life.

I've been thinking about the small things in life that surround us, the everyday things, the things we don't take the time to see.  I feel it it so important to pay close attention to the small things in life.  For example: a rain drop running down your kitchen window can be filled with quiet beauty.  The sun reflecting on water can look like glistening diamonds! If you look closely, glistening diamonds and quiet beauty surround us in every moment.  How many of us take the time to stop and really look at the beauty or even the ugliness in our day-to-day lives?  Are there small things in your daily life that bring beauty and wonder to an otherwise mundane day?  Look closely...small surprises are all around you. 

Have a glorious day!

Succulent Layers

Leaves and Lace

Spring Flowers

Succulent Beauty Blue

February has been a difficult month.

I've had an MS flare-up this month that has really kicked my butt in ways that it hasn't in years.  I think I can express my pain, frustration, and sadness best through poetry.

I have lived with chronic illness for 22 years

This awful month of cold, snow-darkness

My legs are betraying me again

8 months of difficult work in physical therapy - gone

Three day treatment - did not help

Of course, I will begin again

Through physical pain

Through lack of understanding by others

Through my anger 

Through my tears

Through my laughter.

I feel betrayed

By my body - again

By the people in my life who don't really want to hear 

about how difficult this is.

I am not feeling sorry for myself nor my friends who live with this disease

Of course, I will begin again.

Through patience with myself and others

Through understanding

Through love

I begin again the daily work of moving my body from point A to B

By not allowing MS to win;

It may in the end,

but that is not now.

So, I begin again

to work hard on moving my body

in yoga 

at home

exercise to stave off

weakness,

atrophy,

despair.

I will begin again 

To let go,
to heal.

Bronze Etching

Abating Winter Doldrums

New Jewelry

This new piece is made with chunky round resin beads.

Glass Tile Pendants

I loved the process of making these little glass pendants. I made them using the following items:

7/8" x 7/8" Glass tiles
Glossy paper images I've collected over the years
Silver plated bails
and Ball chains