Shows
2022-03-2904 min
HOMESPUN, Stories & PoetryGhosts“I do believe in ghosts, or at least in some kind of persistent spiritual echoes of the past in certain places” Jennifer McMahon
2022-01-2903 min
HOMESPUN, Stories & PoetrySleigh Ride“Never are voices so beautiful as on a winter’s evening” Virginia Woolf
2021-12-1905 min
2021-11-2603 min
HOMESPUN, Stories & PoetryOn Thin Ice“Surgeons must be very careful
when they take the knife
Underneath their fine incisions
stirs the culprit - Life “.
Emily Dickenson
2021-10-3003 min
2021-09-2208 min
HOMESPUN, Stories & PoetryThis Old House“A house is very much like a portrait. I cannot disconnect houses from people. The thought of arrangement, the curves and straight lines. It gives an indication of the character at the heart of it.” Christian Louboutin
2021-02-1603 min
HOMESPUN, Stories & PoetryWho Do I NeedInspired by the song “The News from Your Bed” by Bishop Allen and The Broken String
2021-01-3004 min
HOMESPUN, Stories & PoetryPossibilities“Love is like a virus, it can happen to anyone at anytime” Maya Angelou
2020-12-2404 min
HOMESPUN, Stories & PoetryPolly“When we speak we are afraid our words won’t be heard or welcomed, but when we are silent we are still afraid. So it is better to speak” Audre Lorde
2020-11-0606 min
HOMESPUN, Stories & PoetrySinclair“A baby boy has a special way of bringing out the man in his father and the little boy in his grandfather.” – Tanya Masse
2020-10-1002 min
HOMESPUN, Stories & PoetryRedemption“Redemption is not perfection. The redeemed must realize their imperfections”
John Piper - theologian
2020-07-2805 min
HOMESPUN, Stories & PoetryOblivious“I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
The painting is “Head on a Stem” by Odilon Redon (Fair Use)
2020-07-2202 min
2020-07-0706 min
HOMESPUN, Stories & PoetryThis Spring“A small man, on a small planet, in an undistinguished corner of the Universe” -Joseph Yu
2020-05-0602 min
2020-04-0205 min
2020-03-1805 min
HOMESPUN, Stories & PoetryWhat to do“Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration”
D H Lawrence
2020-02-2203 min
HOMESPUN, Stories & PoetryHe Was The One“Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, men were deceivers ever, one foot in sea and one on shore, to one thing constant never” William Shakespeare
2020-01-2503 min
HOMESPUN, Stories & PoetryWho is She?Confucius says “Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing; it is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator”
2020-01-1607 min
HOMESPUN, Stories & PoetryIs it a Dream“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language, and next year’s words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning” T S Elliott
Music - Anne Murray - public domain
2020-01-0602 min
HOMESPUN, Stories & PoetryNext Year“I think that charity is a tricky thing, because a lot of times, people equate charity with hand outs. I don’t believe in handouts.” Rainn Wilson
2019-12-1905 min
HOMESPUN, Stories & PoetryUp There"People think it's terribly sad to spend Christmas alone, but it's no sadder, really, than spending any other day alone, is it?" Paula Hawkins
Background music by Micheal Rondeau
2019-12-1004 min
HOMESPUN, Stories & PoetryAbe“Going by my past journey, I am not certain where life will take me, what turns and twists will happen; nobody knows where they will end up. As life changes direction, I'll flow with it.”
Katrina Kaif
2019-11-2706 min
2019-11-0402 min
HOMESPUN, Stories & PoetryForest Glade“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness” John Muir
2019-10-1702 min
HOMESPUN, Stories & PoetryGone Again“October is crisp days and cool nights, a time to curi up around the dancing flames and sink into a good book.” John Sinor
2019-10-0902 min
HOMESPUN, Stories & PoetryGame of Gin“You have to learn the rules of the game, and then you have to play better than anyone else” Albert Einstein
2019-10-0303 min
HOMESPUN, Stories & PoetryUnravel“Don’t judge my choices without understanding my reasons” Anonymous
2019-09-2603 min
HOMESPUN, Stories & PoetryI’ll Cry“And onward full tilt we go, pitched and wrecked and absurdly resolute, driven in spite of everything to make good on a new shore” Barbara Kingslover
2019-09-1803 min
HOMESPUN, Stories & PoetryVertical Dreaming“The only real treasure is in your head. Memories are better than diamonds and nobody can steal them from you.” Rodman Philbrick
2019-09-0401 min
HOMESPUN, Stories & PoetryFrenetic Two"To live in this world you must be able to do three things. To love what is mortal, to hold it against your bones knowing that your life depends on it, and when the time comes to let it go - to let it go" Mary Oliver
2019-08-2803 min
HOMESPUN, Stories & PoetryThe Errant WebpageFor those of you who have published web pages. How did your first attempts go? Did you find yourself frustrated with all the guidelines, the "easy" instructions?
2019-08-2103 min
HOMESPUN, Stories & PoetryAn Inconvenience"He who had done more than any human being to draw her out of the caves of her secret, folded life, now threw her down into deeper recesses of fear and doubt. The fall was greater than she had ever known, because she had ventured so far into emotion and had abandoned herself to it." Anais Nin
2019-08-1403 min
HOMESPUN, Stories & PoetryThe Todd“ Maybe it won’t work out, but maybe seeing if it does will be the best adventure ever”. Hplyrikz.com
2019-08-0703 min
HOMESPUN, Stories & PoetryDeny"Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow/which weighs upon the heart"
Shakespeare - Macbeth
2019-07-2502 min
HOMESPUN, Stories & PoetryMemories“In the Arctic the Inuit are saying water and land are the same; they’re an unbroken unity. In the winter, you travel on the ice because it’s the linkage and the easiest way, and in summer you move around on water.” John Raiston Saul
2019-07-1702 min
HOMESPUN, Stories & PoetryIf"It is not our purpose to become each other, it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other, and honour him for what he is" Hermann Hesse
2019-07-0903 min
HOMESPUN, Stories & PoetryDancin' Dan"Let's just preface this by saying that stealing is bad. Don't do it. Ever. But if you had to for some nonexistent reason, do it in style."
SAMMY NICKALLS
2019-07-0304 min
HOMESPUN, Stories & PoetryMoments“When memories outweigh our dreams, we have grown old” Bill Clinton
2019-06-2601 min
HOMESPUN, Stories & PoetryRest in Dreams“All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream” Edgar Allen Poe
2019-06-2002 min
HOMESPUN, Stories & PoetryGood As It Gets“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail better.” Samuel Beckett
2019-06-1302 min
HOMESPUN, Stories & PoetryWhat Price Love?" Love is always greater than the cost - what you gain is always more than what is lost" - Alicia N. Green
2019-06-0503 min
HOMESPUN, Stories & PoetryReflection“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” ~ Robert Frost
2019-05-2901 min
2019-05-2202 min
HOMESPUN, Stories & PoetrySomething Missed"For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else" Ralph Waldo Emerson
2019-05-1502 min
HOMESPUN, Stories & PoetrySeasonal Life"In the cycles and seasons of life, attitude is everything" E. James Rohn
2019-05-0803 min
2019-05-0102 min
2019-04-2405 min
HOMESPUN, Stories & PoetryAre You There“If you only look on the surface nothing moves here in winter”
2019-04-1702 min
HOMESPUN, Stories & PoetryMoving"It doesn't have to be hard, enjoy the process and embrace the new beginnings" Enke Quotes
2019-04-1002 min
HOMESPUN, Stories & PoetryThe Audition"In today's world, everything seems like some sort of long audition."
Bob Fosse
2019-04-0303 min
HOMESPUN, Stories & PoetryBoys to MenBoys to men is history, but when that takes place is a mystery.
2019-03-2702 min
HOMESPUN, Stories & PoetryFamily“Is this what family is like: the feeling that everyone’s connected, that with one piece missing, the whole thing is broken? - Trenton Lee Stewart
2019-03-2002 min
HOMESPUN, Stories & PoetryMystery Books"I have again and again been faced with the mystery of love and have never been able to explain what it is." - C.G.Jung
2019-03-1301 min
HOMESPUN, Stories & PoetryShowers"Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent"
Mignon McLaughlin
2019-03-0602 min
HOMESPUN, Stories & PoetryWeather Creates Her“A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves”
Marcel Proust
2019-02-2702 min
2019-02-2004 min
HOMESPUN, Stories & PoetryIf I Was Never Born“Love is hard to find, hard to keep, and hard to forget” Alysha Speer
2019-02-1303 min
HOMESPUN, Stories & PoetryThis RoomAs we transition into our senior years, our memories begin to define us and bring comfort
2019-02-0603 min
HOMESPUN, Stories & PoetryBag Lady“I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me”
Ralph Ellison
2019-01-3002 min
2019-01-2301 min
2019-01-1602 min
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2019-01-0306 min
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2018-12-1102 min