A Snapshot from my Life

Changing tide of my life, in miniature on my desk: two computers, dried fruit, rose petals drying in trays to make a batch of product. A burnt candle to Saint Helen (the lovely Gunguna) on a beautiful pink and blue-green plate, both given to me by a visiting priest. My commuter’s coffee cup, and make up I should be wearing more often. A rack of contacts, vitamins, and because I love it to hurt when I eat, cayenne.

Somewhere in this mess are seeds I need to plant this year after I prepare them. Lotus, wormwood, rue, wildflowers, tomatoes, a vanilla orchid to join my crowded windowsill of orchids—I didn’t know when I bought them that Saint Martha takes orchids, but what a lovely coincidence!

When it gets warm again, I’ll have to go out and tend to the roses.

A few years ago, this would pretty much all have been computers and computer parts, a neat pile of paperwork, and my charging phone.

The coffee stains haven’t changed, though. I drink far too much of that.

Some day, I hope to whittle my computer parts and computers down to one. I think I’ve given enough of my life to companies.

I’m told the spirits would like me to do a bit more brewing, make more time for what I can’t stop thinking of as (after a papa joke) bru-ja-ja-ja-ja-jeria.

That would be fantastic.