6 ways motorcycle riding improves mental health
A fellow rider shared New Year’s wishes in one of the Facebook rider groups I belong to. His words resonated with me and sparked the poetry pixies to pick…
arrowhead
Sometimes we are betrayed in ways that dismantle the very foundation of our beliefs. Our core is disassembled; we experience our selves in pieces instead of whole (as we once…
angels angels everywhere
Rebecca Wissink was heading out to collect eggs one winter’s day when she happened to look up. Lo and behold: a snow angel on the roof of the barn! She…
illusions: the adventures of a reluctant messiah
Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah, by Richard Bach, is one of my four favourite books. The others are The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho (I have a signed copy),…
tools & everyday miracles; illusions: chapter 3
Ever wish you could levitate stuff? Me too. It would be a handy skill to have… Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah Chapter 3 Illusions: The Adventures…
funeral pyre
funeral pyre © 2019 punkie funeral pyre maybe it wasn’t a bad thing to have burned your book that day. It might have been a good thing,…
this poem just died
this poem just died © 2019 punkie this poem just died © 2019 Susan Macaulay . I invite you to share my poetry and posts widely, but please do…
sleigh ride: reprise
February 2, 2019: It’s a BEAUTIFUL winter day in Mississippi Mills, and, earlier, as I sat with my morning tea, I imagined what it might be like to go on…
63 things I’m grateful for on my sixty-third birthday
Today, January 28, 2019, is my sixty-third birthday. Below are some of the things, in no particular order, that I’m grateful for today and every day. When I started…
a deer in the headlights
“Hey! Look at that!” Bobby’s driving, so he sees him first. It’s about 9:30 p.m. on a late summer’s eve sometime in the 1990s, and we’ve just pulled into…