Personal blog about personal growth, finding my purpose and living life

Donna

National Poetry Month 3

A Prayer in Spring Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers to-day; And give us not to think so far away As the uncertain harvest; keep us here All simply in the springing of the year. Oh, give us…

DonnaApril 13, 2016 poetry, Uncategorized

For as long as I can remember, I have reevaluated my life twice a year. New Year’s Day and my birthday. My New Year’s resolutions are like most people’s, lose weight, work out more etc… Sometimes I even keep them.…

DonnaApril 11, 2016 Uncategorized

National Poetry Month

In praise of my favorite flower: Daffodils I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath…

DonnaApril 6, 2016 Uncategorized

Cooking Solo

You can’t out exercise a bad diet. Over the last several months I have gotten lazy with my diet ( Sausage egg and cheese bagels on sunday mornings while drinking coffee anyone? ). I haven’t gained weight thankfully but time…

DonnaApril 5, 2016April 5, 2016 Uncategorized

National Poetry Month 2

‘A poem … begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness…. It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.” Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. letter, Jan. 1, 1916, to poet…

DonnaApril 5, 2016 poetry

National Poetry Month

April is National Poetry month. In honor of that I thought I should post a few poems this month. I am not a poet and I know that so you are saved my feeble attempts. but I do enjoy…

DonnaApril 5, 2016 poetry

Grief

I have a confession: This blog is both a product of and response to grief. I am hoping that my experiences may be helpful to others going through this. I lost my mom a few months ago and I…

DonnaApril 5, 2016 Uncategorized

Hello world!

Welcome!! Life is Messy is an expression I have been saying for years. I usually say it when trying to get my friends and often myself to let go of certainty and comfort and embrace new things, new locations, new…

DonnaApril 2, 2016April 2, 2016 Uncategorized