Category Archives: Mortality

Musings about getting older – the physical, mental, and attitudinal changes that come (good and bad) – and the inevitability of death – our own and that of those we love.

What Has Been

Posted on 20 July 2024 by Isabel Gibson

A smaller but not a more-diminished life. Continue reading →

Posted in Appreciating Deeply, Feeling Clearly, Mortality, Photos of Fauna, Photos of Flora | Tagged Aging, Attitudes, Flowers, Insects | 11 Comments

Lunar Tunes

Posted on 10 February 2024 by Isabel Gibson

Happy Lunar New Year! As I write this it started yesterday (Saturday, Feb 10), but celebrants carry on their festivities for 15 days, so we have ample time to get with it. Continue reading →

Posted in Feeling Clearly, Mortality, New Perspectives, Through the Calendar | Tagged Aging, Attitudes | 10 Comments

The Night Lengthens . . .

Posted on 23 September 2023 by Isabel Gibson

“There are only two times of the year when the Earth’s axis is tilted neither toward nor away from the sun, resulting in a “nearly” equal amount of daylight and darkness at all latitudes…. The “nearly” equal hours of day and night is due to refraction of sunlight or a bending of the light’s rays that causes the sun to appear above the horizon when the actual position of the sun is below the horizon.” You’ll be relieved to know that this is the last you’ll hear of these mechanics from me. Continue reading →

Posted in Appreciating Deeply, Mortality, Through the Calendar, You are Here | Tagged Science, Weather | 10 Comments

My Whole Life

Posted on 21 April 2023 by Isabel Gibson

I am a one-kid illustration for glump. glump: to look glum: FROWN Sitting at the bottom of the stairs that lead up to the half of our storey-and-a-half house in Edmonton, my head hangs, my shoulders slump. Can you blame … Continue reading →