NO!…. I’m not ready for summer to be over for another year 😥
I love summer. I love the light nights, the long days, the sunshine…even the smell of summer rain. Well, I live in Scotland after all LOL
There is no denying it though…summer is slipping away all too quickly. Even Mother Nature is leaving hints for us. Look!
Maybe we’ll get an Indian summer…. ever the optimist 🙂
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Life’s busy…. normal blog service will resume next week.
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Sometimes you need to step into the shadows to appreciate the beauty in the sunshine.
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Silently meandering
No one watching or listening
Only the sounds of nature for company
Wondering what is to come…
Daydreaming of long light summer nights
Reflecting on the dark days of winter
Open to new possibilities
Praying for better days as I
Silently meander.
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I’m no expert but I did survive my “toadstool” hunt the other day. Being a creature of habit, I tend to walk the same route after work most days. As I walked down the hill the other day I spotted some toadstools and decided to see how many I could find on my late afternoon meander. It was very much a “look don’t touch” search. Here’s what I found :
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Mentally recharging the batteries
Emotionally clearing the clouds
And releasing all the pain
No set destination or direction
Drawn by the lure of the shore
Enchanted by the energy of the river
Rhythmic waves soothing the soul
Isolated from the wider world
Nothing and no one to disturb the daydreams
Grateful to have made it through another day.
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There’s a certain stillness to the evenings now that summer is ebbing away. The air is cooler. The beach is quieter.
I use my daily meandering as time to think, time to reflect, time to daydream. It’s my “me time”.
Occasionally I’ll set myself a photo challenge as I’m wandering along, partly to give myself something to “focus” on.
Recently the challenge was “berries”
How many sleeps til summer returns?…….
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Over ten years ago, a fortune teller caught me off guard and rather enthusiastically declared I had been a healing witch, a green forest dwelling witch, in a past life. I’ll not lie, that lady struck a few chords that night but that’s perhaps a story for another time. She also scared the hell out of me!
I’m not a big believer in having your fortune told. In fact, she was only perhaps the third or fourth “fortune teller” that I have ever had a conversation with, and it was only the second ever and, to date, last “reading” I’ve had. I had mis-understood what I was walking in on, and my guard was down. Her initial exuberant greeting rattled me, and my guard remained down while I was in her company.
She was adamant that I was a healer or had been in a past existence. She claimed I had lived in a forest and been well respected for my abilities as a green witch.
Well, if she says so….
Her words echoed back to me earlier this evening as I went for a walk with a friend through some local woodland.
It had been a long day. There’s a lot going on in my world just now and some of it was preying on my mind, leaving me feeling tense, more than a little sad and rather stressed out.
As we explored slightly off the beaten track, through some trees and woodland, I felt a weight lift and an air of calm descend. It was a noticeable shift in my energy. Definitely, a shift for the better. For the first time in a while, I felt at peace with myself.
Maybe the fortune teller from all those years ago was right….
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A few months ago, a close friend gave me a piece of advice . (I may have mentioned it on here before – can’t quite recall at this precise moment in time) Paraphrasing slightly, what they advised was to keep writing, keep taking lots of pictures, lie on the beach and stare at the sky. Basically- do more of what makes me happy.
Those words have echoed back at me regularly over the past 9/10 months and, wherever possible, they have been words to live by.
Taking time for yourself in this crazy world isn’t selfish. It’s called self-care. It’s essential.
So, what have I done?
Well, I’ve kept writing and typing Book Baby 7. I’m onto my second notebook and I’ve typed 10 000 words.
I’ve taken hundreds and hundreds of photos. Very few of these have people in them and, of late, there have been more than a few flowers. Here’s just one to give you a flavour ( absolutely no idea what kind of flower this is but I love it!)
I haven’t sat on the beach …yet…but I have walked it many many times over the months.
and I’ve stared up at the sky…
So, what have you done to make you happy?
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While out meandering earlier, I was thinking about this week’s blog post and wondering what to write. You’ve probably noticed but its very rarely that these weekly posts are planned much ahead of them being posted.
The various paths and trails around me caught my eye……
How different would life be if a different path had been followed or explored?…. that’s definitely a thought for another day but here are a few of the options I passed along the way.
but this one is crying out to be a story prompt……
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Coral McCallum 