• They say that time waits for no man.  I just wish some days that it would give me a chance to catch up.
  • Check out my other creative outlet at http://www.slyriders.com
  • Be careful where you step, for everyone witnesses the journey.
  • There are so many things to learn, so many things to see and so many things to do.
  • I love watching the gulls riding the howling gale in front of the window.  The stormy weather encourages me back to bed - a chance to indulge in some winter reading.
  • Sunshine, sand and seagulls in the middle of winter - just brilliant.
  • A thought for the day - which I cam across this morning.  I touched and inspired me.
  • You're alive. Do something.
    The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated.
    It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences.
    It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.
    ~ Barbara Hall
  • I think I can stand anything, as long as I can continue to write and to sing.
  • Passing from this life is simply the removal of oneself from the exquisite pleasure of the senses.
  • There is absolutely nothing that will raise the spirits more than watching a Golden Retriever bound down the beach on a cold winter afternoon.  The biting wind which drives the rain like sharp splinters of ice onto your face does not worry him one little bit.   
  • Continue the search for those moments of sublime beauty.  When found, treasure the enjoyment and wonder that they bring.  Life is nothing more than a collection of those beautiful moments of celebration.
  • Find the fire  - connect - indulge wholeheartedly in life.
  • Exhausted in the morning and I can't throw off the sheets / Love note lays beside me where my coffee usually sits / Shower gently raining down from across the room divide / Cat sits on the window ledge longing for outside.

  • Here in the Southern hemisphere, winter approaches by stealth.  Autumnal leaves lie scattered on the ground.  This encourages me, as twilight falls, to sit with my laptop on my knee and write.

  • Passwords are a pain in the butt - especially when they don't work!
  • Two weeks on a remote gulf island reminds me that life should be savoured and enjoyed at a leisurely pace.
  • Keeping faith in my heart, means that fear remains at bay.
  • Summer appears to have finally arrived, with long hot evenings, copious sunburned bodies loitering on the beach and the Pohutakawa trees in their full radiant summer crimson coats.  Pure bliss.  
  •  Life may well be a journey, but some days, the destination sucks.
  • Nanowrimo update:  I did not make the 50k in the month of November, but I have added a healthy 25,000 words to the current first draft.  No mean feat.
  • November is National Novel Writing Month - or Nanowrimo.  The challenge is to write a 50,000 word first draft in the 30 days of November.  No mean feat, I can assure you.
  • Check it out at http://www.nanowrimo.com
  • Musings will return during the month of December!