Linda Hoye's Blog, page 31

There Are Things I Can’t Unsee

I can’t unsee or unhear things I’ve seen over the past two years and, most incredibly, in the past few weeks. There are things we can’t come back from in this country and, indeed, in the world. I have never been particularly politically minded, but our leadership’s actions, overreach, and outright disdain for citizens with

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A Quiet Monday

  It’s a strange time of year. Snow melt flows down city streets and we watch as the hills across the valley turn from white to brown and crusty ice-snow in our backyard disappears, making it less treacherous for both man and dog. Yet, this morning I’m listening to wind rage and the windchill is sufficient

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Friday’s Fave Five – February 18, 2022

Let’s see. Can I do it? It’s been a week of highs and lows and it’s hard to believe it’s already Friday. Maybe I especially need to do a Friday’s Fave Five post this week so, here we go. Coffee and conversation. Time spent with friends talking about anything but the elephants is always food for

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God Is Not In Control

At risk of being shunned by some circles in which I travel, I’m going to make a confession.  When faced with adversity, if someone tells me that God is in control, I want to throw up. Just being honest. Not asking for absolution. I could name countless situations in my life, in the lives of

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Burdened

I’ve been writing, in one form or another, for most of the day. That, and keeping one wary eye on the Canadian news. I can’t believe what’s happening in the country I love. For the first time since its creation in 1988 (as a modern-day replacement of the War Measures Act), our Prime Minister. has

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Strange Comfort

It’s a beautiful, sunny day here in Kamloops. I’m just in from taking the pups out in the backyard where all three of us risked life and limb so they could tend to the necessary business. It’s an ice rink out there—and not one suitable for the sport of skating. No, there’s a different kind

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Elephants

There are elephants of varying sizes in almost every room I enter—but not at home, thank goodness not at home. Here we speak openly and disagree respectfully, but out there there are things I dare not speak of lest I face judgment or attack by one faction or another (by “out there” I mean the

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Thinking Deeply. Pondering Much.

What’s the difference between deep thinking and overthinking? My granddaughter and I had a conversation about that yesterday afternoon. Overthinking can take us to a dark and unproductive place where we struggle to find momentum. We play and replay conversations and situations and imagine different outcomes. We wobble and change our minds, refusing to commit

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Losing My Mind

It’s possible I’m losing my mind. I decided to try my hand at abstract painting with acrylics and managed to carve out an hour this afternoon to play. It’s going to be fun, once I figure out what I’m doing, but this afternoon I just made a mess. That’s okay. It’s all part of the

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Ten Things Saving My Life Right Now

I read a post this morning on Christy Woolum’s blog, Gathering Around the Table, called Ten Things Savimg My Life Right Now, where she shared 10 things helping her through the bleak mid-winter. Her post was in response to Anne Vogel’s post on her blog, Modern Mrs. Darcy, and invitation to others to do make

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