Category: Reflections

Phoenix; rise again

September 23, 2020
In order to rise from its own ashes, a phoenix first must burn. The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune’s spite; revive from ashes and rise. Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes. #phoenix #riseagain

Slow Dance poem by David L. Weatherford

July 22, 2020

Slow Dance by David L. Weatherford

Have you ever watched kids
On a merry-go-round?

Or listened to the rain
Slapping the ground?

Ever followed a butterfly’s erratic flight?
Or gazed at the sun into the fading night?

You better slow down
Don’t dance so fast.

Time is short.
The music won’t last.

Do you run through each day
On the fly?

When you ask: How are you?
Do you hear the reply?

When the day is done,
Do you lie in your bed

With the next hundred chores
Running through your head?

You’d better slow down.
Don’t dance so fast.

Time is short.
The music won’t last.

Ever told your child,
We’ll do it tomorrow?

And in your haste,
Not see his sorrow?

Ever lost touch,
Let a good friendship die

Cause you never had time
To call and say, “Hi”?

You’d better slow down
Don’t dance so fast.

Time is short.
The music won’t last.

When you run so fast to get somewhere
You miss half the fun of getting there.

When you worry and hurry through the day,
It is like an unopened gift thrown away.

Life is not a race.
Do take it slower.

Hear the music
Before the song is over.

West Coast to East Coast along the TC-1 East relocating to Nova Scotia ✌🏻 BC

May 21, 2020

Ontario kind of goes on forever. The trip started to feel pretty long last night when I was really tired. I pulled over at the first picnic spot I found after Kenora, beside Willard lake. I had the entire spot to myself.

The stars were radiant; I haven’t seen a sky that incredible with so many sparkling stars since I was in New Zealand, many years ago now.

The water was like glass; it was simply spectacular. I stared at the lights sparkling off the water for some time. When one of the lights started moving slowly along the water I wasn’t sure if I was looking at a reflection of the sky or fireflies. Eventually I realized it was a plane flying overhead but it totally threw me off.

I brought several fleece blankets and a few faux fur mats with me to make the most comfortable bed in the backseat of my CRV I laid them out along the rocks beside the water and slept under the stars for a about four hours from 2300-0300.

It was so peaceful listening to the loons calling and all the different sounds of the night. I could make out crickets and frogs and the sound of fish jumping. There weren’t any bugs, I thought that there would have been after one of the stops I made at dusk. The bugs were swarming; it gave me flashbacks of my fire fighting days. Specifically the muskeg in Quebec.

This trip, and the sense of ultimate freedom, is exactly what I need right now. The timing is truly impeccable. I need this to nourish my soul. My Mom doesn’t know I’m headed her way and I can’t wait to see her face when I arrive.

Here’s a link if you’d like to see where I’m at on Maps: https://maps.app.goo.gl/Yk6NFau8gzgZxMjW8

On my way to Katherine Cove today; only 9 h 29 min. It sounds amazing, I might stay there for a few days.

I mentioned where I was headed to a lady in a store just now. She said Katherine Cove is so beautiful “but there’s nothing there.”. I told her “That’s perfect. That’s exactly what I want.”

So I should get there after 1am.