
the deciduous conifer
turning colour in autumn
before shedding golden needles
to stitch up the forest floor
ready for winter frosts

the deciduous conifer
turning colour in autumn
before shedding golden needles
to stitch up the forest floor
ready for winter frosts
even though the whole of 2025 has felt like a long, slow, much needed hibernation.

I just love it when we have a crisp morning and the frost covers the ground. There’s an extra crunch.
#decemberreflections2025

These last few weeks of November have found me out of sorts if I’m being honest.
Things that I’ve committed to, or poured my energy into haven’t gone my way or come to fruition.
The disappointment has been at times crippling as well as left me questioning.
Am I good enough? Am I putting my eggs in the wrong basket? Am I really going to bring about change in a system not looking to change?
The sheer effort to keep pushing that boulder up the hill is taking its toll. There’s a voice that’s getting louder saying, why bother?
What the fuck am I doing anyway?
It doesn’t help having these thoughts and being ill too. It doesn’t help that I feel I’m making progress and then turn the next corner to just get knocked back.
While I sit and lick my wounds, doing all the things I said I would never do again, I have to ask myself what am I doing? Where am I going? And would it be just better for me if I stopped caring so much, stopped fighting the ways things are and just give up/ in and accept the crumbs I’m given and be grateful.
Like I said – out of sorts I am!







definitely more to follow, I just need to get my head around it!



