Genuine Gem Journeys

The Plague Have you ever read or heard about the book by Albert Camus entitled, “The Plague?” If you are looking for understanding, for reflection and a short and introspective deep read, then “The Plague” might be a good book for you to consider. I read this book around four months ago and I found the reflections and storytelling of the characters very profound. Perhaps this is because we are…

Tell Me What Christmas Is

Tell Me What Christmas Is A young child sat in front of a Christmas tree Admiring all the gifts With an authentic curiosity, he asked, “Please tell me what Christmas is?” A warm and loving face looked down Upon the little youngling An answer was required To suffice this little ones wondering. Picking up the child Setting them upon a cozy knee Pondering for a moment “What a joy this will…

The War of 2020

The War of 2020 In the year of our Lord 2020, the battleground was no longer across a wide and vast battle field. The soldiers did not charge across green meadows of grass and rock, their long swords drawn with their courage charging toward their human enemy. There was no enemy line that stood ready to battle and challenges them in the opposing distance. There was no physical arrows flying…

The Noise Stopped

The day I found out I had cancer, is the day the noise stopped, I call the noise-mind talk. It is a noise we become accustomed to. So accustomed to that we don’t notice how loud the noise is until it’s gone. You can call it your thoughts, pre plans of your day, or life; it is the noise of mind talk.

When I heard I had cancer all the mind talk stopped.

I started to hear things…

Making Baking of the Future

Making Baking My Grandma taught me how to make cookies. A lump of butter, two handfuls of chocolate chips and make sure you taste the batter as you move along through the ingredients; because if you don’t like them before they are baked, people are not going to like them after they are baked.

Making Baking of the Future Making of the future to me, is like making cookies. Do you need a recipe?…

Imperfection-I am not perfect…Sorry society I can’t be perfect

“We were not put on this world to be perfect, we were put here to try.”

How does that sentence make you feel?

When the words entered into my ears, they acted like scissors, cutting away the strings that were attached to the burden boulders that were dragging me down.

The words in the sentence were freeing.

Words

Words are powerful. As a certified Lifestyle coach I have learnt the power of…

Looking at the word CAN_ADA

For fun I broke done the word Canada.

Can– a verb-an action word meaning “able to, know how, indicate possibility, being enabled”

adais a structured, statically typed, imperative, and object-oriented high-level programming language, extended from Pascal and other languages. … Ada was named after Ada Lovelace (1815–1852), who has been credited as the first computer…

What is a Father?

What is a father?

Are they a mighty being?

Standing masterful and tall Always ready to catch you Every time that you fall.

Do they make mistakes?

Maybe just a few Quick to auto-correct Always sure about what they do

Can they move the biggest mountains?

Part the greatest seas Be influential and strong As powerful as humans can be.

Do they play the part of hero?

The loving vision in a child’s eye

We all have them…. a crap day. Here is my recollection of one of my crap days.

Hot Ride

This ride is endless, no…. it will have an end. Everything does.

I feel hot and wet. The middle of my back, between my shoulder blades, has water drops racing down to my bum, it’s a slalom of sweat. The backseat of the cab is awkward for me, the day has been awkward.

He pulled over too soon. Doesn’t he…

One longgggggggggg sentence to capture the early morning sounds of birds C & T anyone?

Chirp, chirp, chirpy chirp they go, high then low, never surrendering just chirpy- chirp, chirp; “quiet” is never heard, determined with their words, on and on and on and on and on and on they go; chirpy, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirpy chirp, chirp, chirp; tweety, tweet, tweet, tweety, tweet, tweet, tweet,…

The misuse of vision

How do you use your vision?

The misuse of vision

Have you ever treated someone differently because of the size of their liver? Have you ever been rude to someone because of the size of their feet? One of these objects you can see while other is hidden, deep within the structure of a human being.

Vision, a beautiful gift and function of many species. For some animal species it allows for…