Tastes like sunshine

June 23, 2011January 9, 2015 ~ Tara R. ~ 12 Comments

I sliced up the first tomato from my garden today for lunch. It was sweet, and juicy and tasted like sunshine. If you've only had tomatoes from a grocery and never one still warm from the vine... you don't know what you're missing... pure ambrosia. This season I've actually paid attention to my garden. Watering … Continue reading Tastes like sunshine

I will lay me down

June 18, 2011January 9, 2015 ~ Tara R. ~ 5 Comments

I'll take your part When darkness comes And pain is all around Like a bridge over troubled water I will lay me down ~ Paul Simon. "Bridge Over Troubled Water." Bridge Over Troubled Water. Columbia Records. 1969.

Do as I say, not as I do…

June 15, 2011January 9, 2015 ~ Tara R. ~ 19 Comments

Yesterday the Mister and I marked a quarter of a century married ~ our Silver Anniversary. When I was much younger, I imagined couples reaching 25 years together were, while not exactly old, at least considered mature. As a couple we have weathered many ups and downs, great joys and heartbreaking sorrows. As a couple … Continue reading Do as I say, not as I do…

Making sense of it all

June 13, 2011January 9, 2015 ~ Tara R. ~ 8 Comments

“Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out” ~ Vaclav Havel

Try turning around

June 11, 2011January 9, 2015 ~ Tara R. ~ 4 Comments

There's a light at each end of this tunnel, You shout 'cause you're just as far in as you'll ever be out And these mistakes you've made, you'll just make them again If you'd only try turning around. ~ Anna Nalick, "Breathe." Wreck of the Day. Sony Music BMG, 2005. I try to learn from … Continue reading Try turning around

Dangerous sweetness

June 6, 2011January 9, 2015 ~ Tara R. ~ 11 Comments

Pitcher plants, carnivorous flora that despite its outward beauty, has a hidden homicidal nature. They tempt their prey with sweet nectar, only to drown them in that loveliness and consume them. Like these man-eaters, there are people in our lives, pulling us in with their saccharine words, their sweet but deadly nature. Devouring us when … Continue reading Dangerous sweetness