“You left me, sweet, two legacies, – A legacy of love A Heavenly Father would content, Had he the offer of; You left me boundaries of pain; Capacious as the sea, Between eternity and time, Your consciousness and me” – Emily Dickinson It is getting…
“Yet down the line, lay clear uncertainties: promises made and promises to keep. Buried ambitions too, beckon and prod us to consider the harvest we’ll reap” Everyone makes mistaken, everybody lies but the truth will come out eventually. It is funny but if I am being…
I heart the question, “what do you really want, Daniela?; “what do you really need, Daniela? or “really think about it hard, will you” more than one million times in the last couple of days. Also, don’t tell me what I should have, lady at…
Catching title, eh? Let me back up a little bit before I get into the meaty things I want to write about. I am living a pretty minimalistic lifestyle. I don’t own a lot of stuff and like it like that. I moved out of…
The last two weeks were very difficult for me and I asked myself the question, “When does it all stop being so complicated”? Most of the day I felt like curling up somewhere to sleep. I was mentally and physically exhausted. It all started with…
This could be me after I dropped off my son enjoying a book and cup of coffee on the porch. When I walked home from school today to pick up my son I realized the colour-changing of the leaves and thought that the new school-thing…
The fall semester started at the university, we successfully moved to the new house and Petit Joel is in Junior/Senior Kindergarten. A bunch of changes and transitions happened in a pretty short time and I am dealing with it all one day at a time. …
Everything changes. Nothings stands still. I have moved so many times in my life that I can pack an entire house into boxes with a smart, efficient system within a very short period of time. My moving-highlight and easiest move “accumulated items-wise” is still from Munich…
We are back in Canada and before I even filled up our fridge I checked out my favourite bookstore in Ottawa for a nice cup of latte, good conversations and great used books. Taking a break from studying, researching and course material, I am happy to…
The greek philosopher Heraclitus once said that “everything changes and nothing stands still” (my dad’s favourite). Besides Heraclitus’s quote, I don’t even know how many times I heard “summer is over” in the last couple of days. The summer in Germany was not as great…
