Sunday Serenity: Incoming …

Posted on December 18, 2022 by ShakespearesGal

Storms come and go. Our resilience dictates how we’ll endure. Do we grow from the experience, or cast ourselves as the victims of circumstance?

It’s a choice.

Like the horse I choose to put my back to the wind and stand my ground until the storm passes. Only then is the way made clear for next steps.

Storms pass, and we can rise in the wake, or sink with the tide.

I choose to rise.

Thanks for visiting …

Dorothy 🙏❤️

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Wordless Wednesday: April Surprise

Posted on April 20, 2022 by ShakespearesGal

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Wordless Wednesday: The Window

Posted on April 13, 2022 by ShakespearesGal

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Lest We Forget

Posted on November 11, 2021 by ShakespearesGal

Remembering my great-uncle Flight Sergeant Archibald Don Gordon, RCAF,
405 Squadron, killed in action April 6, 1943, over the Bay of Biscay.
Buried in Plot 1, Row AB, Grave 5 Pornic War Cemetery, France.

May his sacrifice not have been in vain.

Yours in remembrance …

Dorothy

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Wordless Wednesday: Rippled Sunset

Posted on May 12, 2021 by ShakespearesGal

Sunday Serenity: Dormancy

Posted on February 21, 2021 by ShakespearesGal

Sunday serenity. Boy, do I need it.

We all need it.

We all need to be able to compartmentalize our lives enough that we can find some respite from these unusually challenging times.

So much change. So much uncertainty. So much potential. So much promise.

Yet, every birthing of the new requires the passing of the old. We cannot suffer and thrive at the same time. We must make a choice. What do we give up? What do we keep? What do we embrace so we can create the life we want?

This old apple tree, which has been battered by ice storms and had pieces of it grafted back together more than once, is dormant for the winter, but a few weeks from now it will begin its next great awakening. It will blossom full of promise for the new growing season.

That’s what I wish for myself, and for you. These unusual times have forced many of us into dormancy, but like the apple tree that sleeps and renews itself for the coming season we too have the potential to step into a revitalized and fruitful way of being.

And so, wherever you are, and whatever your struggles right now, I wish you strength, I wish you joy, and I wish you resilience. This too shall pass.

Oh yes, and I wish you some Sunday serenity.

Thanks for visiting,

Dorothy

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Wordless Wednesday: Time of Reflection

Posted on November 4, 2020 by ShakespearesGal

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Sunday Serenity: Perfect Imperfection

Posted on October 18, 2020 by ShakespearesGal

In a society pre-occupied with the “perfect” look (whatever that is) it’s comforting to know that nature is somehow perfect, and supremely beautiful, in its imperfection.

We can be, too.

Thanks for visiting,

Dorothy

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