Sanctuary

Life in lockdown (week five)

April 21, 2020

I'm not not anxious but I'm starting to feel a growing discomfort and lack of motivation.

From field and forests, across oceans (week four)

April 15, 2020

I feel at home in the trees in a way that defies my prairie upbringing. Maybe because before they were farmers, my ancestors carved small homesteads out of primeval European forest in ages past. And even more recently lived in the woods.

Getting extra stuff done (or not) in confinement (week two)

March 31, 2020

Without our usual out of the house appointments and activities "it feels" like there is more time in our days. Except for a few online gatherings, my calendar is empty, which gives a sense of expansiveness.

When family is everything (week one)

March 22, 2020

There's nothing we can do in this crisis but hunker down, distance ourselves, and take care of each other, and that's what we're doing. And I'm enjoying this time together. Am I allowed to say that?

The end of travel season, a return to city life

October 16, 2018

Last week, while at my parents house I experienced a keen sense of "these are the happy days". There wasn't a feeling of foreboding attached, but definitely an awareness that these moments don't last.