a peek inside the fishbowl

I won the lottery. I didn’t pick numbers or place any bets, yet I have riches beyond measure. And for that, I am very very grateful.

Wishing you all a wonderful New Year, one that’s full of fire and joy and happiness.

I am lying on the border of warm and cold, cool and damp from a dip in the lake but quickly warming in the summer sun. The water beads on my skin and evaporates.
The sky, which had opened the day wearing shades of white and grey is now almost completely blue overhead.
I listen to the [...]

“It reminds me of being in a church mumma,” she says. She is right. This is my trinity: blue sky, bright sun, quiet forest. Sunlight streams through the branches and illuminates the ordinary, making it sparkle and shine. The world is blissfully white and silent here. The trees reach for the sky in anticipation of a holy embrace.
The [...]

The garden is overgrown.
But from the deep
green
tangle
emerges something good: