IBK Word and Image

Category: Seasons

  • Hello Again

    Hello Again

    I’m resuming my blog called: “Word and Image” after a 5 year hiatus. Some of you are reading this for the first time  … Welcome! My last blog on May 03, 2019 with the title: “Things Are Not Always Clear” was the end of a season and the earliest transition of a nine month journey…

  • Making Room

    ©IBKimage2017 Happy New Year 2019 My purpose with this blog and in general is to offer insight and encouragement in life’s transitions. To do that this time I’m remembering a time that I was a professional organizer When I started I helped people organize their offices, houses, garages … by helping them to set up…

  • New Beginnings

                    Dear Readers: I left you here in the conservatory at the Denver Botanic Garden when I posted a blog on July 31,2015. In that last blog I said:  “Having recently experienced several non routine events in some areas of my life, I’d like to offer an insight.…

  • Shift Happens

    We’ve heard the term  ” ***t happens” … a deadline looms ; health issues change our routines; a new job requires re-orientation from familiar patterns; the dog dies; the old arguments resurface; you live with a two year old; and so on. It is  easy in these times to quickly seek an answer,to work at a solution, to make our case, and to…

  • Waiting

        We are often in a hurry to bring a task to completion; hurry along a discomfort that we want to avoid; have pain end and so on.  We are often eager to fulfill our own plans instead of waiting to hear or discern other options. When we’ve lost something we have an opportunity to discover…

  • Ahhh … Spring 2015

                    Sometimes words are not necessary. IBK

  • Stopping

      On a recent trip to Brooklyn, NY this family of “parts” caught my eye while walking briskly down the sidewalk , arm in arm with two my own family members.  The middle child up in dad’s arms wears a ®Meineke Care Care Center shirt to let us know that …yes you’ve arrived at the…

  • Hope

      ©2009IBKimage Hello Dear Readers, I’ve missed offering insight and encouragement in your life transitions, but today I’m ready to begin again. I’ve been in a season of rootedness vs. roaming and there have learned to wait for answers I couldn’t find, and in some sense, didn’t need.  It’s a season of asking new questions because…

  • Changes

          Hello.  It’s been a couple of months since I’ve shared a word and image to offer insight and encouragement for life’s transitions.  I’ve actually had to learn to speak some of those words to myself as I’ve worked through some challenges regarding my health.  As I was making a routine left turn on…

  • Closed Doors

                                  The gate in today’s image is on the southeast side of the Denver Botanic Garden. I’d never seen it before on my visits, but this summer I’m exploring specific parts of the garden on shorter but more frequent visits.  I saw…