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Simple things

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 14 Sep 2021

Busy, busy working frenzy … no time to spare to stop for simple things …

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Soul Food

By Rhiannonw on Sun, 12 Sep 2021

[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] Having fasted, Jesus, hungry heard the tempter tell him to ‘Turn the stones to bread, for You are God the...

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A Winning Handshake

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 09 Sep 2021

Always in trouble, mischievous, gullible, embittered, a rebel – but sport brought a medal; in a dream he went forward to receive the award, extended his arm for the usual handshake …

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… but as you said, it is the

Posted on Sat, 03 Jan 2015

… but as you said, it is the space between that is full of good memories. Here the beginning, so beautifully described, and such pleasure, and seen now as the beginning of a full life, despite all the hardships, and the agony of parting. Rhiannon

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I hadn't really realised the

Posted on Thu, 01 Jan 2015

I hadn't really realised the length of time involved from the beginning of the trouble, or how much was done at each stage of better health. This fills in so much of 'the spaces between' all along the way, the very hard spaces, and the happier...

Posted in The Story of One Remarkable Lady

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I'm afraid I hadn't noticed

Posted on Sun, 14 Dec 2014

I'm afraid I hadn't noticed this last week. It has an intriguing wistfulness. Love the feeling of the wind, and the sounds can be so varied and odd - nice when comfy indoors, like the sounds of the rain. Rhiannon

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You've rephrased some of

Posted on Wed, 17 Dec 2014

You've rephrased some of these thoughts, while redrawing the moment (stopping the clock in a sense) and there is much tender beauty in the captured scene, linked to past memories, and present struggles, which could help others. Rhiannon

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The interview with

Posted on Tue, 16 Dec 2014

The interview with Ipnasoletok is fascinating. Was the ban on speaking their languages lifted in later years? It reminds me of youngsters in Wales years ago having to wear a board saying 'Welsh Not' i think if caught speaking the language, but in...

Posted in We Who Survived -16 - Perrin Whitman and the Indians -part 3

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There has always been a

Posted on Sun, 14 Dec 2014

There has always been a tension between being open with any nationality about things in their lives that are definitely coming between their hearts and God, and what is just more minor things, and cultural differences between people of different...

Posted in We Who Survived -14 - Perrin Whitman and the Indians -part 1

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The sun sets over the birches

Posted on Mon, 08 Dec 2014

The sun sets over the birches –
pencil-sketched on a gun-metal sky
that's lovely and fits the beautiful picture so well. Such evenings are times for memories and longing. regards, Rhiannon
[ricochets of lathe and...

Posted in December Late Afternoon

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This has made me think how

Posted on Tue, 18 Nov 2014

This has made me think how such a saved letter can bring memories of the person active and communicating, maybe more than a photograph. Rhiannon

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How sad, how difficult

Posted on Wed, 12 Nov 2014

How sad, how difficult visiting in that situation, just hoping more is appreciated than shows, like when someone is in a coma. It there are earlier happy memories I suppose one has to fix on them. I'm so thankful that at present, both my in-laws...

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the snatch of breath when a

Posted on Mon, 20 Oct 2014

the snatch of breath when a sunburst rips apart a darkening autumn evening sky. Lovely picture.

Such moments still happen but unexpectedly, as the remembered little incidents and smiles in this, – going back we'd just store them...