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For whose benefit …?
discreet … ostentatious … displays for praise … generous … parsimonious … discreet … to ease distress — which giver is blest more than the receiver?
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“… They will not sweep over you.”
[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] Flood and storms can pound and shake me, who can hold my head above? Faithful Brother won’t forsake me,...
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January (northern hemisphere)
So much bleak and weak and waiting, so much dark and stark, deflating, but see … so soon will come a colourful time, a warmer clime.
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1949
An end of war, blossoming joy, as waiting girl and returning boy could now be wed and optimism in every heart viewed the years ahead: work hard,...
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Fact truths, or ideas
[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] “There are no absolutes” – some say: “just choose whatever suits – today. Be happy in your chosen way and...
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A lovely picture of sitting
Posted on Sat, 24 Jul 2021
A lovely picture of sitting in the warm days watching the busy bees in the flowers. Those individual flowers as they move into them are so attractive aren't they? I don't know phacelia, though I think it may be one we had difficulty identifying...
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What an experience!
Posted on Fri, 23 Jul 2021
What an experience! Fascinating to read the various accounts. Has she written any more herself about the time? Rhiannon
Read full commentPosted in Maria's Diary 35 The Shipwreck
delightful picture and useful
Posted on Thu, 22 Jul 2021
delightful picture and useful metaphor! Hard to apologise and retract too. Rhiannon
Read full commentPosted in later
I'm always surprised to
Posted on Tue, 20 Jul 2021
I'm always surprised to realise how much travel occurred for many at that time with jobs in India and the Far East, aware of how much more difficult and slow travel was then. And then to realise how easily writing could be lost at sea, with no '...
Read full commentPosted in Maria's Diary 34
Know so much about him, yet
Posted on Fri, 16 Jul 2021
Know so much about him, yet feel I know or understand him hardly at all, because of what he didn't tell or share, and the culture/language barrier!. But an interesting read! Rhiannon
Read full commentPosted in Maria's Diary 33
I like that you seem to be
Posted on Wed, 14 Jul 2021
I like that you seem to be showing that 'coming home' is returning to your loved one(s) and recontacting/reconnencting with eye communication, not just the return to a family house! Rhiannon
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As one gets older there are
Posted on Tue, 13 Jul 2021
As one gets older there are bound to be more deaths to face, especially in that era, but they have had to face a lot at once. It is sobering reading. He himself seems a strange mix of confidence in his own judgements, and hurt at other's...
Read full commentPosted in Maria's Diary 32
It sounds as if those pirate
Posted on Fri, 09 Jul 2021
It sounds as if those pirate ships were stirring up trouble, or taking advantage. Sad suspicion and ill feeling and lack of understanding showing up again, and lack of really trusted negotiatiors, and explainers?! All very interesting glimpses of...
Read full commentPosted in Maria's Diary 31
And of Hong Kong in that era
Posted on Tue, 06 Jul 2021
And of Hong Kong in that era too. Is there more information about the orphanage and the other charities to come? I didn't realise that they had such a humidity problem. Rhiannon
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So often a tension between
Posted on Fri, 02 Jul 2021
So often a tension between wanting to promote trade to other countries, but suspicion, lack of trust, difficulties of communication because of language, culture and long isolation, and of course many times neither nationality always behaving well...
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