[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] “I was dead, but now am alive evermore”. ‘He started out well, but his work is no more.’ Friends melted away...
Mums, Dads, turn your eyes from your phones as you talk or listen to your children – time flies – they need to see your expression to learn the cues...
Like a chrysalis, bud breaks shoot bursts out like a butterfly, the leafllets slowly expand, open out like the butterfly’s creased-up wings, to form...
The climate pressures do so need to be addressed and the unpopularity of measures accepted, but two things I feel on reading what you say in verse and comment —
what a mess! So sad. And again, though we can find out so much, we can't go back and interview them, and even if we could we couldn't see into all the hearts and past, as only God can. I hope the children found some good carers, not just...
Well, quite a different side to Florence Nightingale, and clearly her way of relaxing! They seem to be able to discuss and share opinions for consideration. How old is Florence at this time? Rhiannon
I liked the photo, Jenny. Is it yours? The light gleaming on the moss adds to the loveliness of those moss-enveloped secret and undisturbed places. It reminded me of walks in such places with soft swathers of beautirul mosses, and those old...
You have so much maple over there I think! Also I think you are a bit ahead of us in the autumn coldness and colouring. We do have a little bush called Stag's Horn in the garden that is in beautiful colours of red, orange and yellow, jut outside...
I sometimes wonder if those praising some pieces really understand them (I am aware of being very slow to understand even Shakespear myself, without a teacher leading my thoughts), or merely like some parts, and like the sound flow of the words...
A touching memory, Graham, especially as your 'masquerade' could have been sore for the listener in his hard circumstances, and provoked feelings of jealousy, but in fact, his gentle interest in your 'success' and happiness, cheered you! Rhiannon
Glimpses we have of people and situations in the past can be quite tantalizing in feeling we know only the surface of events and would love to be able to time-travel to see more, and ask questions and try to understand the why of people's...
Complacency and greed is
Posted on Thu, 04 Nov 2021
Complacency and greed is subtle for all of us and concentration on immediate pleasure not the future or eternal. Rhiannon
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I don't know why I missed
Posted on Fri, 15 Oct 2021
I don't know why I missed this before my op, Di.
The climate pressures do so need to be addressed and the unpopularity of measures accepted, but two things I feel on reading what you say in verse and comment —
1) the whole realm of...
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what a mess! So sad. And
Posted on Wed, 20 Oct 2021
what a mess! So sad. And again, though we can find out so much, we can't go back and interview them, and even if we could we couldn't see into all the hearts and past, as only God can. I hope the children found some good carers, not just...
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Well, quite a different side
Posted on Wed, 13 Oct 2021
Well, quite a different side to Florence Nightingale, and clearly her way of relaxing! They seem to be able to discuss and share opinions for consideration. How old is Florence at this time? Rhiannon
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I liked the photo, Jenny. Is
Posted on Mon, 11 Oct 2021
I liked the photo, Jenny. Is it yours? The light gleaming on the moss adds to the loveliness of those moss-enveloped secret and undisturbed places. It reminded me of walks in such places with soft swathers of beautirul mosses, and those old...
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You have so much maple over
Posted on Fri, 08 Oct 2021
You have so much maple over there I think! Also I think you are a bit ahead of us in the autumn coldness and colouring. We do have a little bush called Stag's Horn in the garden that is in beautiful colours of red, orange and yellow, jut outside...
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I sometimes wonder if those
Posted on Thu, 07 Oct 2021
I sometimes wonder if those praising some pieces really understand them (I am aware of being very slow to understand even Shakespear myself, without a teacher leading my thoughts), or merely like some parts, and like the sound flow of the words...
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A touching memory, Graham,
Posted on Thu, 07 Oct 2021
A touching memory, Graham, especially as your 'masquerade' could have been sore for the listener in his hard circumstances, and provoked feelings of jealousy, but in fact, his gentle interest in your 'success' and happiness, cheered you! Rhiannon
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This is beautiful, Di! and
Posted on Wed, 06 Oct 2021
This is beautiful, Di! and the simple unobtrusive rhythm and rhyme making a simple flow of the words! Rhiannon
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Glimpses we have of people
Posted on Wed, 06 Oct 2021
Glimpses we have of people and situations in the past can be quite tantalizing in feeling we know only the surface of events and would love to be able to time-travel to see more, and ask questions and try to understand the why of people's...
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