ivan_lawHeartbreaks are inevitable. They can happen at sixteen or they can happen at sixty. They are all equally as excruciating and can make you feel as if the world is coming to an end. The physical and mental pain associated with heartbreak is too overwhelming to ignore, and occasionally, it may feel as if your……
Month: November 2015
Fountain Boy in the Garden
My entry today was inspired by https://dailypost.wordpress.com/photo-challenges/transition/. Last month, I visited my family home that we had turned into a bed and breakfast. We wanted a way to keep our home amidst the sea of change in our home town that has increasingly turned metropolitan. While the basic landscape design was intact and…
Thank then Give
Most thanksgiving is about giving thanks, expressing gratitude, recognizing and appreciating blessings. We usually feel grateful for something gifted to us. The cycle is therefore like this, receive or be gifted with something then thank. Thank the Lord for blessings received. Thank our friends for kindness experienced. Thank our family for…
The Real Neat Blog Award
I have been nominated for the Real Neat Blog Award by @beingmepresently. Thank you very much! The Rules: 1. Thank and link the blogger who nominated you. 2. Answer the seven questions the person who nominated you provided. 3. Nominate seven other bloggers. 4. Create seven new questions for the people you nominate. 5. Display…
The Giving Year
It all began as a suggestion on Facebook on New Year s Day about easing into a minimalist life by gradual de cluttering. Instead of making the usual resolution to lose weight, the suggestion was to lose a lot of weight in stuff. To further ease the thought of loss, the added suggestion was…
Remembering Light
I came to Gingham Lane after I lost my mother to pneumonia and its complications. Her name was Luz meaning light. Oddly, I cared for her over ten years while she was battling Alzheimer’s disease. Eventually the disease dimmed the light in my mother s life but it didn’t break her will nor diminish…
My Prayer For Paris
On The 13th of November 2015, the heart of the city of Paris was attacked by terrorists. It seems they wanted to bind the city that symbolized love and freedom with chains of fear and death. 129 dead in Bataclan theater. 350 injured. A city of 2.2 million living in a state of emergency. The…
Honest Writing
The other day I read The state we’re in… You can read it at https://beingmepresently.wordpress.com/2015/11/10/the-state-were-in/ It’s an honest account of blogging and writing in the midst of an uneasy life. She gave a sensory description of her difficult ordinary moments. It made me think of my own writing and blogging in the midst…
Christmas Starts
I started to feel the holiday season today. 1. My first bag of Christmas Blend coffee beans and I hope it doesn’t run out before December. 2. The first sticker to collect for the 2016 journal promotion. 3. Trying the new holiday drink. I still prefer Toffee Nut Latte 4. Taking out the holiday…
Down At Emerald Lane
Emerald lane is the last row of homes after three dead ends to the right in a small working class neighbourhood beside a community named after soda. (Out there is a place called Coca-cola village). I am visiting my favorite teacher, my other mother, my praying partner because she has turned 96 years old….
To Ava s mom: the gift of grandparents
Last November 3 was Ava s birthday and her grandfather Willie shared a post saying he loved and missed his “10” and how it’s been a painful 179 days apart from Ava. To Ava s Mom I am a single mom too and if you love your daughter and yourself you will allow Ava to…
Gingham
Gingham as a noun is a woven cloth with a checked pattern in bold color. It is a print typically associated with a country or rural lifestyle. Lately, gingham is on trend and worn by fashion plates and printed on linens and plates. The pattern looks like many squares or hashtags in row…
Living On Gingham Lane 