Spreading positive vibes with poetry, and music. I find making these “meditations” inspiring and uplifting, too. It’s beautiful to connect to old words. Words: Edward Shanks (1892-1953). Poem in the public domain. Images: PexelsMusic: YouTube Library
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Sprinkle and Drizzle Meditation
I’ve been posting these videos for several months over on Bluesky for a bit of fun. For technical reasons, I decided the best way to compile and share is through YouTube. I’m slowly building up the library on YouTube (slowly…
Merrymakers in an Inn – A Poem
This poem is an apostrophe, and by that I don’t mean a punctuation mark! Excuse me if you already know this!😃 In grammar, apostrophes either indicate possession, or they stand in for missing letters . As literary devices, apostrophes also…
Merchant’s Wife and Chocolate – A Poem
In The Merchant’s Wife poem, I continue my poeticised response to “food-related” art, specifically in this painting as to what they may be having for breakfast or morning tea. If you’d like a close-up of the painting, click on “source”…
After Chekhov – A Poem
This poem in my ekphrastic series is inspired not by one art source, but by two. Both works of art — a painting, and a short story — were completed within a decade of each other. More on the short…
The Philosophers’ Meal – A Poem
Can you imagine the conversation at this dinner table? Well, I tried to. Another in my ekphrastic poetry series. My of my ekphrastic poetry here. More on free verse here. The Enlightenment At the Thursday night dinner of philosophers,it was…
An Easter Haiku
I don’t know what it was about this boy’s face that caught my eye. Or maybe it was the apple on the floor? The half-eaten cake? That gesture which seems to declare, “Mine!”. I just tried to have fun with…
Still Life with Ham – A Poem
I love the challenge of ekphrastic poetry, responding to works of art with words. This is the start of a series of poetry posts, some more serious than others, in which I engage on food-related themes. I ensure all the…
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The Pedigree of Honey
Finding value where you least expect it is always wonderful. Finding value and beauty in the small things, or the overlooked everyday things, is something I try to remember to do when I can, especially when life’s throwing a few…
Snaps for Salad!
I love stumbling upon excellent salads. Personally, I always prefer hot foods, even in warm weather (the European in me), but an excellent salad is enough to make me … Neither too lean, nor too complicated; tasty but not drowning…
Easy Spice Lamb Backstrap Dinner
Let’s talk about the elephant in the room. The vast majority of dinners cooked by home cooks like me day in, day out, aren’t Instagrammable. They’re nutritious, simple, practical, and hopefully quick. But not the stuff of reels and pins….
