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Toddler opening presents
When you are one it’s really fun to tear off the paper to find what’s inside there. … And then that bag they put the wrapping paper in …
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Why didn’t I really like it?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Girl_with_a_Watering_Can A copy of this was given by an aunt when I was quite young. She was loving and kindly but...
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Come! See! [6. of series based on old carols]
O come, all you faithless … see the wonder in Bethlehem. Baby, King Jesus, born to be our proxy. O come, do not ignore him, O come, bow now before him, receive his gifts, adore him, Christ, the Lord …
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The Focussed Day
Focus on love focus on giving focus on joy focus on feasting focus on family and friends and also those drifting – pity and compassion shelter and...
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Wonderful things come from surprising packages
Rough old oyster, hidden pearl …
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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...
Read full commentPosted in The Story of One Remarkable Lady
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
Read full commentPosted in Wild and Beautiful
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
Read full commentPosted in Quarter to January
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...
Read full commentPosted in We Who Survived -16 - Perrin Whitman and the Indians -part 3
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...
Read full commentPosted in We Who Survived -14 - Perrin Whitman and the Indians -part 1
The sun sets over the birches
Posted on Mon, 08 Dec 2014
The sun sets over the birches –
Read full commentpencil-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
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
Read full commentPosted in PS No PS
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...
Read full commentPosted in The Shadow of Lilith
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...
Read full commentPosted in All in an Autumn Evening
HI, Shannan. Sorry to hear
Posted on Sun, 19 Oct 2014
HI, Shannan. Sorry to hear things hav e been pretty tough.
Read full commentKeeping up with friends on facebook seems to be a mixed blessing – you can catch up with the news they want to share, but for real friendship you need face to face friends you can...
Posted in May you have a Facebook Rainbow
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