When you were a child, did you ever watch a parent or older sibling getting ready for a night out? Sitting on a bed observing the person go through a step-by-step transformation: carefully retrieving and donning the special outfit; styling their hair; applying make-up; buffing or polishing their nails; selecting the perfect jewelry and other…
It’s Okay to Lose Focus
It’s Christmas week. Icicle lights dangle in the window. Electric candles glow on the sill. Multi-coloured bulbs twinkle from the Christmas tree. I sink into the couch. Take off my glasses. And watch it all go out of focus. I am near-sighted. Very near-sighted. Most of the time I wear contact lenses but not, of…
Frozen Delights
Beneath the drain pipe at the corner of my house sit five rain barrels. My husband has connected them together with lengths of hose so that when the first barrel fills, the water flows into the second one, and so on. The barrels are covered with pieces of plywood weighed down with bricks to keep…
Welcome to my adventure
Wonder. Awe. Joy. I find myself experiencing these things everyday at unexpected times from the most unlikely of sources. Except they aren’t unlikely at all, once you recognize them. I am someone with a very finely tuned nervous system that responds to subtle stimuli. I have synesthasia, which means my senses like to collaborate with…