Thought Salad

Category: Thoughts on life and death

  • Lifestyle

    We all have one, whether we accept it for what it is or not. Today’s word prompt is huge, and caused me to take a step back and think about what it really means. My lifestyle is comfortable in material terms, but bursting at the seams in so many ways.  It’s full of kids with big…

  • Fresh 

    Just landed in Toronto for the weekend again,  number four of fivefold my geriatrics diploma course. Getting very close to being finished, and more excited this weekend than I was last month.  Last month was painful making it though the weekend, and I felt like I had to force myself through the whole thing. And…

  • Shower time

    My morning routine is pretty set now. I get up, coffee until awake, play on my phone with Facebook/email/etc, exercise, then shower and get ready for the day. Morning showers have become the most fun part of my day since having my little dude. He’s always been a little more attached than the girls, and…

  • Long road home

    Today has been tiring. Nothing overly difficult or unusual, but draining none the less. It’s like the floodgates had opened up,  and people and problems continued to pour in. I felt like a river bed, gouged down by the persistence of water, wearing me down over time. By the last set of troubles I felt…

  • Illusion

    Control is something many of us strive for, Fight for, Die for A word that describes a theory, the meaning elusive and fleeting Depending on circumstances and others, Never fully within our grasp. We struggle, Anxious and wanting, Striving to have the sense of mastery inherent within its meaning, Never able to reach the heights…

  • Tapestry

    Each life touches us in some way, Everyone we meet. Some people stay for a lifetime, others pass by. Some make us happy,  bringing love and joy,  a deeper sense of belonging.  Others cause only heartache and pain Many more touch us so briefly we recognize them as fleetingly as the wings of a moth…

  • Monday, the devils apprentice 

    I slept great last night, which is such a nice change. It almost makes a person feel like shouting from the rooftops “Hey, I slept great! None of the warm bodies in my house destroyed my night! Yay!!”  I’m pretty sure a lot of people out there can identify with this sentiment. Such a great…

  • Yarn

    I used to sit and listen as she spun her life story, wide eyed and curious, amazed by everything that was said older and wiser by scores of years, She always seemed to know everything We would walk uptown, black button boots in my mind the way a “lady” wore her shoes Up the tall…

  • Miasma

    the smell of her perfume lingered in the air once present, she had vanished into a memory from the past She’d been vibrant and glorious, full of life and ideas, feelings and interests all of the things that make one alive but time had changed her, she’d grown old and frail until finally one day…

  • Blanket of contentment

    A cover of soft white clouds surrounds the land, night sleeping longer into the day The sun slowly rises, pushing gently through, warming the ground below. I struggle to wake up this morning, enjoying the cocoon I’ve made for myself, nesting comfortably in warm blankets It’s safe, quiet and enveloping. Reminding me of a childhood…