Deanne Fitzpatrick » Entries tagged with "spirit"
“letting your spirit soar” or “chance encounters, sorting yourself out, and getting on with it”
Dear Diary, Some things change your life. They are usually big huge things, big deep experiences or are they ? Sometimes the things that change your life are silly little things. Sometimes they are chance encounters, sometimes they are the little risks that you take, sometimes they just flow, one thing to another, and you flow with them. For example the time I saw Harry Moore, before he was Harry the Printer, on the street outside my window … Read entire article »
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merry christmas
Dear Diary, the feeling of Christmas is really in the air. The shops are busy. There is even a dusting of snow around here. My date squares are made, some are even delivered. The salt fish has been bought for the annual making of fish and brewis for my sisters. All my presents have been bought and wrapped. There is a little magical feeling in the air, a freshness, an anticipation. My Christmas tree is … Read entire article »
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a blessing is a lovely thing
Dear Diary, Iris Dement has a song called “Let the mystery be.” Which I have always loved. Her beautiful light voice carries the tune in my head sometimes when I wonder about God, and life. We might as well let it be, for answers are deeper than us. Last night I went to see Glen Campbell perform . As he left the stage, he kept repeating “God Bless You.” I say this all the time, … Read entire article »
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mother love
Dear Diary, Maybe you’re supposed to be jumping for joy, dancing in the park or swinging on a swing when your children grow up and you have more time to yourself but truthfully is at first , it’s a little bit bewildering. Your little love is now a big love. As happy as you are for them, because you do want them to set out on their own, there is a twinge. You are reminded of … Read entire article »
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tending a garden
Dear Diary, irises, geraniums , holly hocks, and someone tending them in the garden. These rugs always remind me of a prayer. I hooked them about seven years ago. The last few days I have been saying a few extra prayers, not on my hands and knees, but with my head bent. Those of you who read my book, Inspired, remember the chapter on prayer. It can be done in so many ways. I suppose on … Read entire article »
Filed under: Creativity, Diary
the balance between memory and melancoly
Dear Diary, Sometimes the feeling of home is all you need. I have a little wall of memories, a medal of St. Christopher a friend gave me when we were 14, a few pictures of my parents when they were young, another taken in their prime, a duck carved by my father when I was a girl, an inexpensive celtic ruin from a cathedral in Galway. These things have hung for a few years in … Read entire article »
Filed under: Creativity, Diary
art is a blessing
Dear Diary, I believe in blessings. As a teenager when I moved here to Nova Scotia, friends would scoff at me because I said” God Bless” . I’d be getting out of a car at midnight, and I’d yell, “God Bless”,. They’d yell back, “God Bless you too” and laugh their heads off. They got me, but they didn’t get me. That’s okay. We do not need to “get” everything about each other. Those people … Read entire article »
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a little praise for the wonder of it all
Dear Diary, praise comes in all forms. My house growing up was full of religious icons. The cross that laid over my parents’s bed now blesses my kitchen. My mothers little receptacle for holy water, is nudged in against my back door. Perhaps I look at them differently than she did, perhaps I do not. It does not matter. They are both reminders of her, and the need to lift my head in wonder and … Read entire article »
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