Tag: Renewal

The First Day Of Spring

by Ebb Then Flood

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“With the coming of spring I am calm again”

 – Gustav Mahler

It has been a tumultuous August in Auckland, wet and windy for the most part.

But to be expected. That is what August brings. And I don’t mind really.

Spring ,according to the calendar anyway, has arrived today. Sunny and calm!

Thought I would mark it with this image of a flower from my garden that appears around this time every year.

Not quite sure what it is, but it doesn’t matter.

It is a signal of spring, of renewal, and anticipation of good things to come.

And, like the weather this morning, I feel calm. I struggle with generalised anxiety,so gladly accept that feeling!

 

Not Too Much On Your Plate?

by Ebb Then Flood

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This can be a thing in restaurants – a tasty morsel, in this case a decadent dessert – on an oversize plate. Odd. This was such an extreme example I had to take a shot.

Which got me to thinking about those times in life which are not exactly brimming over and dripping onto the carpet.

You know, when you are between jobs or relationships, or a time of loss  –  and there is empty, and sometimes uncomfortable, space. We crave that time and space when life is frantic and when we are at odds with the life path we want or hope for, there is more of it than we want.

What to do with unwelcome time and space?

It’s a bit like the expanse of white china above –  a blank canvas so to speak. The time of emptiness may become a place of renewal  and re-creation, something massive in your life. Not something to fill the gap for the sake of it, but an opportunity to change something that’s not working, or head down a new path entirely.

And if that sounds all too much, you could at least sprinkle some f**king fairy dust, like icing sugar ,all over your plate….