Eva Pasco's Blog - Posts Tagged "harmony"
On Thin Ice!
Separate and apart from my life as a writer/published author—most days I’m skating on thin ice. When you’re a caregiver, and I’m not even as hands-on as others who wear the crown, you live by the creed, “When you least expect it…”
Such was the case on Christmas Eve, infiltrating Christmas: pondering whether or not a trip to the ER was called for. The mid-morning stabilization provided a reprieve for two people who avoided languishing in the hospital for hours on end. This unexpected pardon enabled me to embrace a semblance of inner peace and harmony, providing relief from the doldrums.
Each of us has our own reference point to rally from. When you’re skating on thin ice, you truly appreciate a lifeline when you least expect it, and when you need it the most.
As for the fate of my characters who reside in the genre of Contemporary, there are those who succumb, and those who survive the perils of skating on thin ice. Such is life.
Eva’s Byte #287 – For the Birds
Oh, by gosh, by golly
It’s time for mistletoe and holly
(Lyrics to “Mistletoe and Holly,” a 1957 Christmas song recorded and co-written by Frank Sinatra)
***
A little early to ring in the holidays, but they’ll be here soon enough.
Like so many of us, I’m spending more time at home in self-isolation during the pandemic. It has behooved me to nest by surrounding myself with bits and baubles which connote and promote a sense of peace, tranquility, and harmony.
For instance, my miniature Christmas trees. Over the years, I’ve acquired a smattering of them ranging from 6 – 24 inches in height:
A tree comprised of tiny cellophane packages
A tinsel tree of holly and berries
A tree made from pine cones, interspersed with berries
A dainty evergreen decorated with red ball ornaments and red bows
An evergreen with pine cones and berries, to which I’ve added felt mini mice on the branches.
Since I love to surround myself with objects from nature, both the pine cone tree and mouse critter tree stay in place all year round.
This brings me around to yesterday’s acquisition from Amazon, shown in the photo, and out for delivery. I intend to display this tree on the surface of a large storage bin located to the right of my desk in my office. There, it will remain all year beside a small bin containing my dearly departed Hope’s memorabilia.
By gosh, by golly, soon after I determine the spread of its branches, I’ll be ordering a set of miniature birds to perch on them—before it’s time for mistletoe and holly, that’s for sure.
As we round the bend to the holidays, may each of you nest to your heart’s contentment.
*My sincere appreciation if you’ve read this far.
Eva’s Authors Den Page: https://tinyurl.com/yycm7d2w
It’s time for mistletoe and holly
(Lyrics to “Mistletoe and Holly,” a 1957 Christmas song recorded and co-written by Frank Sinatra)
***
A little early to ring in the holidays, but they’ll be here soon enough.
Like so many of us, I’m spending more time at home in self-isolation during the pandemic. It has behooved me to nest by surrounding myself with bits and baubles which connote and promote a sense of peace, tranquility, and harmony.
For instance, my miniature Christmas trees. Over the years, I’ve acquired a smattering of them ranging from 6 – 24 inches in height:
A tree comprised of tiny cellophane packages
A tinsel tree of holly and berries
A tree made from pine cones, interspersed with berries
A dainty evergreen decorated with red ball ornaments and red bows
An evergreen with pine cones and berries, to which I’ve added felt mini mice on the branches.
Since I love to surround myself with objects from nature, both the pine cone tree and mouse critter tree stay in place all year round.
This brings me around to yesterday’s acquisition from Amazon, shown in the photo, and out for delivery. I intend to display this tree on the surface of a large storage bin located to the right of my desk in my office. There, it will remain all year beside a small bin containing my dearly departed Hope’s memorabilia.
By gosh, by golly, soon after I determine the spread of its branches, I’ll be ordering a set of miniature birds to perch on them—before it’s time for mistletoe and holly, that’s for sure.
As we round the bend to the holidays, may each of you nest to your heart’s contentment.
*My sincere appreciation if you’ve read this far.
Eva’s Authors Den Page: https://tinyurl.com/yycm7d2w
Eva’s Byte #291 – Thanksgiving: Then and Now
A former third-grade teacher for sixteen out of those twenty-nine years spent in the trenches of elementary education, the theme of “Native Americans and Pilgrims” loomed large in our social studies curriculum. Striving to steer away from teaching the subject in a boring and dry-as-hardtack manner, we brought that period in history to the forefront with meaning and relevance for 8 and 9-year-olds, by relying on the book, If You Sailed on the Mayflower in 1620 by Ann McGovern.
Certainly, major relevance gleaned from the Pilgrim settlement at Plimoth Plantation was the realization that diverse cultures of a community could live in peace and harmony. This is a history lesson worth repeating today.
Then – October of 1621:
The Pilgrims celebrated the "First Thanksgiving" after their first harvest in the New World. The celebration entailed an outdoor feast lasting three days. In attendance—90 Native Americans and 53 Pilgrims.
*During the Mayflower voyage, a steady sea-diet high in salt weakened their bodies. Malnutrition, disease, and the harsh weather claimed as many as 2-3 colonists per day during their first two months on land, diminishing their original fold of 102 by half.
Now – November 26, 2020:
Due to the widespread surge in the COVID-19 pandemic, the CDC has urged Americans to celebrate Thanksgiving virtually, or to assemble in gatherings limited to members of the same household.
Similar to the Pilgrim voyage which gave rise to a Thanksgiving feast, this same holiday is considered the busiest travel juncture of the year in order for family and friends from afar to be together at the dinner table.
*Recent statistics cite that at least 250,000 people in the United States have died from the virus since the pandemic erupted less than a year ago, last February.
Like our Pilgrim forebears, families and friends will need to come to an agreement as to the logistics for giving thanks and counting our blessings.
More importantly, we need to pay the holiday forward by harvesting peace and harmony in our community as the Wampanoags and Pilgrims did during the First Thanksgiving.
*My sincere appreciation if you’ve read this far.
Eva’s Authors Den Page: https://tinyurl.com/yycm7d2w
Certainly, major relevance gleaned from the Pilgrim settlement at Plimoth Plantation was the realization that diverse cultures of a community could live in peace and harmony. This is a history lesson worth repeating today.
Then – October of 1621:
The Pilgrims celebrated the "First Thanksgiving" after their first harvest in the New World. The celebration entailed an outdoor feast lasting three days. In attendance—90 Native Americans and 53 Pilgrims.
*During the Mayflower voyage, a steady sea-diet high in salt weakened their bodies. Malnutrition, disease, and the harsh weather claimed as many as 2-3 colonists per day during their first two months on land, diminishing their original fold of 102 by half.
Now – November 26, 2020:
Due to the widespread surge in the COVID-19 pandemic, the CDC has urged Americans to celebrate Thanksgiving virtually, or to assemble in gatherings limited to members of the same household.
Similar to the Pilgrim voyage which gave rise to a Thanksgiving feast, this same holiday is considered the busiest travel juncture of the year in order for family and friends from afar to be together at the dinner table.
*Recent statistics cite that at least 250,000 people in the United States have died from the virus since the pandemic erupted less than a year ago, last February.
Like our Pilgrim forebears, families and friends will need to come to an agreement as to the logistics for giving thanks and counting our blessings.
More importantly, we need to pay the holiday forward by harvesting peace and harmony in our community as the Wampanoags and Pilgrims did during the First Thanksgiving.
*My sincere appreciation if you’ve read this far.
Eva’s Authors Den Page: https://tinyurl.com/yycm7d2w
Eva’s Byte #349 – Home Sweet Home
“Home is where your story begins.” Annie Danielson
On the home front:
As the number of COVID cases continues to ramp up on a daily basis at an alarming rate, and as I’ve gotten a taste of how bitterly cold January can be, home is where it’s at for me. It’s a given my days of foraging for sea glass are behind me—unless a gift horse of low tide on a sunny morning/midday of at least 50 degrees occurs.
In the meantime, I’ve taken up crafting apple pomanders which I’d written about at length in Eva’s Bye #346. Thus far, a half-dozen are in the curing stage prior to decorating and gifting. Winter is the perfect season to undertake a project of this nature. Because I find it necessary to keep busy at all hours of the day, this endeavor has taken on a life of its own as a gesture for extending goodwill.
On the story front:
Home is the primary setting for my Contemporary work in progress—a guesthouse in the seaside community Charlestown, Rhode Island. I’m currently wending my way through Chapter 5. A story which sprouted from a few scatterbrained seeds has grown untamed, thanks to characters who are leading me on a wild-goose chase.
*May your home be a safe haven where love, laughter, harmony and creativity abound within its confines.
My sincere appreciation if you’ve read this far.
Eva’s Authors Den Page: https://tinyurl.com/yycm7d2w
On the home front:
As the number of COVID cases continues to ramp up on a daily basis at an alarming rate, and as I’ve gotten a taste of how bitterly cold January can be, home is where it’s at for me. It’s a given my days of foraging for sea glass are behind me—unless a gift horse of low tide on a sunny morning/midday of at least 50 degrees occurs.
In the meantime, I’ve taken up crafting apple pomanders which I’d written about at length in Eva’s Bye #346. Thus far, a half-dozen are in the curing stage prior to decorating and gifting. Winter is the perfect season to undertake a project of this nature. Because I find it necessary to keep busy at all hours of the day, this endeavor has taken on a life of its own as a gesture for extending goodwill.
On the story front:
Home is the primary setting for my Contemporary work in progress—a guesthouse in the seaside community Charlestown, Rhode Island. I’m currently wending my way through Chapter 5. A story which sprouted from a few scatterbrained seeds has grown untamed, thanks to characters who are leading me on a wild-goose chase.
*May your home be a safe haven where love, laughter, harmony and creativity abound within its confines.
My sincere appreciation if you’ve read this far.
Eva’s Authors Den Page: https://tinyurl.com/yycm7d2w
Eva’s Byte #442 – Self-Meditating
“We’re all mad here.” (Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland)
Besides my outlet of writing and meticulous attention to housework, a dose of ambient music serves to suppress and dispel those occasional anxiety-ridden, g-r-r-r pileups. What Audrey Hepburn as Holly Go Lightly in Breakfast at Tiffany calls the “mean reds,” which boils down to my intolerance for situations outside my jurisdiction which I have no control over, going awry.
Otherwise, I keep my fever to the form for staying grounded on my terms, ohm-ing along by self-meditating as needed:
The numbing, narcotic effect of ambient music accompanying my forays at the keyboard, works wonders for restoring calm and reducing anxiety.
I’m particularly fond of compositions featuring the healing flute of Tibetan music which soothes the soul.
In the capacity of a writer, I’m drafting chapter 43 (966 words thus far) along my Contemporary work in progress. I daresay, the term “feng shui” came up during a dialogue between characters.
*May each of us have the wherewithal to create our own calm for restoring inner peace and harmony.
My sincere appreciation to you for reading this far.
Eva’s Authors Den Page: http://www.authorsden.com/evapasco
Besides my outlet of writing and meticulous attention to housework, a dose of ambient music serves to suppress and dispel those occasional anxiety-ridden, g-r-r-r pileups. What Audrey Hepburn as Holly Go Lightly in Breakfast at Tiffany calls the “mean reds,” which boils down to my intolerance for situations outside my jurisdiction which I have no control over, going awry.
Otherwise, I keep my fever to the form for staying grounded on my terms, ohm-ing along by self-meditating as needed:
The numbing, narcotic effect of ambient music accompanying my forays at the keyboard, works wonders for restoring calm and reducing anxiety.
I’m particularly fond of compositions featuring the healing flute of Tibetan music which soothes the soul.
In the capacity of a writer, I’m drafting chapter 43 (966 words thus far) along my Contemporary work in progress. I daresay, the term “feng shui” came up during a dialogue between characters.
*May each of us have the wherewithal to create our own calm for restoring inner peace and harmony.
My sincere appreciation to you for reading this far.
Eva’s Authors Den Page: http://www.authorsden.com/evapasco
