Peri Phillips McQuay's Blog
January 6, 2023
Welcome to my new blog, Small, With Great Love
Welcome to my new blog, Small, With Great Love These are my depth years. My question in later life is: What remains? Although I no longer can range widely, what I am challenged to do is to go ever deeper into my surroundings. And, even as I learn the hard lessons of aging, what a rich life I am finding. Always, I am grounded in nature, my true home. Expect to find: My experience in understanding, and healing from, the …
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September 27, 2022
Filled With Joy, A Feldenkrais Day
Filled With Joy, A Feldenkrais Day
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WELCOME
WELCOME TO My Blog: Small, With Great Love In small pockets like Singing Meadow, the twenty country acres where I live and write, the shadows of herons still pass over my head on their journeys from nearby Bobs Lake to their stick nests in a pond behind my home. At night I still can safely stand in the middle of my dead-end road, staring at the clear, deep sky full of stars, hearing no sound but a glee of coyotes, …
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Welcome
On a late winter evening five years ago, I was sitting staring at the cascading flames in the window of my well-stoked woodstove. It was a month after my dearly-loved husband Barry died of what his doctors called “a particularly catastrophic form of cancer.” As the shock wore off, I was beginning to recognize that …
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April 12, 2019
Coming Back to Life
SMALL, WITH GREAT LOVE, A BLOG EASTER A New Path On a late winter evening five years ago, I was sitting staring at the cascading flames in the window of my well-stoked woodstove. It was a month after my dearly-loved husband Barry died of what his doctors called “a particularly catastrophic form of cancer.” As the shock wore off, I was beginning to recognize that after 47 years of marriage I had no idea who this new single me was, nor what I wanted to become. Just two months ago, my world had imp...
September 5, 2017
QUILL Sunday Lecture Series
Excited to be speaking to QUILL’s lifelong learning group. A fine opportunity to talk to this special group about the meaning of home, and what this can teach us. Looking forward to meeting you and sharing your stories of home: … Continue reading →
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April 17, 2015
Flowers in vegetable gardens
Already I can see the flowers creeping into our vegetable garden this spring. They always have done, and I suspect they always will. I always start out with the best of intentions.This big garden is laid out in easy-to-manage squares, … Continue reading
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March 30, 2015
Foley Mountain Trees
The Foley Mountain Conservation Area, overlooking Westport, is one of my special places, as it is for so many who visit there. Many of the trees there are landmarks for us, friends which have inspired us for forty years. Yesterday … Continue reading
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December 12, 2014
Stories of an Advent Calendar
In the ever-anxious wind-up to the dreaded December exams, one of my few comforts was marking off the days on the Christmas calendar my father had discovered when he was rummaging in a bin at Zellers. One of the first … Continue reading
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December 3, 2014
Tableland 2
Today, however, when I reached the part of the trail where I had been stopped, I could follow on until I came to a very different, more pastoral landscape. Here I crossed among rolling hills and strode down into groves, … Continue reading
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