This morning’s reflections — full of gratitude!

(click photograph for larger view) Gratitude for: life; love, family and friends; fresh food, water and shelter. On the 17th Ann gifted me with a beautiful bowl; with which to continue exploring the “one bowl method;” on yet another aesthetic level. Filling this beautiful bowl with Ann’s spiced pretzels, seedless grapes and almonds, this morning, presented […]

Joy returned on Tuesday (and turtles and spiders)

On Saturday, March 10th, the day of the heart attack, a subtle psychological shift occurred within me. Within hours of the event I seemed to have lost interest in most things that previously held my interest and attention. I’d never, before the attack and placement of two stents, experienced what others referred to as depression. […]