I have this strange plant. I bought it at the supermarket, wondering about how a store that small would have a thing this… weird. The plant had no name tag, no watering instructions,… Continue reading
“What are you doing?” she asks, her hands lovingly rubbing the roundness of her belly in which, for the past eight months, she has been miraculously growing a tiny little person who surely… Continue reading
How to See Beauty in a Mess I open the fridge, I grab my little salad dressing bottle. It is oily and escapes my hands as if it were a slippery fish fighting… Continue reading
View this post on Instagram A post shared by MarvellineMarvels (@marvellinemarvels) I don’t know why these things have such a soothing effect on me. But they are easy to find, and they… Continue reading
An Orchid’s Lesson on Self-Confidence
Sprouts are these amazing little worlds of miracles. In essence, they are simply seeds, like those of trees and flowers, but because we can grow them within days on our window sills of… Continue reading
My post, HSPs in a World of Beauty, talked about how sensitive people have a gift: they find and enjoy beauty easily, which can help them experience a great degree of happiness on… Continue reading
Something to warm your heart in the light of fast approaching winters… Check out my new page, photographic marvels, to see more of my photos at one glance. They are all taken with… Continue reading
Just an ordinary orange. And yet I tend to forget how beautiful the things I devour are.
You cannot step in the same river twice. — Heraclitus of Ephesus I haven’t been inhabiting the virtual realm in a while. Things happened. Life unravelled with remarkable speed and pulled me into… Continue reading
Márgarét, áre you gríeving Over Goldengrove unleaving? Leáves like the things of man, you With your fresh thoughts care for, can you? Ah! ás the heart grows older It will come to such… Continue reading
a post on frying eggs with love Feel the morning cold of the kitchen floor radiating through your feet, put on fluffy slippers, cherish the soft cozy. Turn on the stove, rub your… Continue reading
HSPs have a superpower: they can FEEL beauty. Not that others can’t. But recent discussions with friends have given me the impression that it takes a lot more for some of them to… Continue reading
It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see. — Henry David Thoreau Someone gave these to me the other day. I was stunned by what I saw when they… Continue reading
My newest secret hobby (when no one is looking at me, obviously) is looking at food. Yep. I said it. I find it strangely reassuring. Grounding. To carry a pear in your… Continue reading
As I was taking these photographs on the Oregon Coast, a van pulled up out of nowhere. Out tumbled a mother with her two kids. The woman scurried right up to me and… Continue reading
