Back home. There is always such peace and pleasure and a sense of shalom--well-being!--in being back home. One of the rewards of travel!! I now feel as if I am in an aviary, with lots of brightly coloured birds flying around me, chirping, Write to … [Continue reading]
Facebook posts from September 2009. Norway
Since "work expands to fill available time" is one of my most-feared adages, we've always packed the day before we leave on a long trip, so that the vacation doesn't colonize extra time. This year, since the publishing has become hectic, I had to be … [Continue reading]
Facebook posts from August
That hilarious little Irene has been following Roy and I around with her laptop, recording our conversations, then playing them back to us. "Could some gift the giftie give us/To hear ourselves as others hear us!" Zoe has been in a Shakespeare … [Continue reading]
Facebook posts from July
It's quiet & a little depressing with Zoe & Irene away. They're such lively, cheerful, helpful kids (one's v. cheerful; one's v helpful!) Luckily, the psychology of missing people or things: you inevitably miss them infinitesimally less each day. … [Continue reading]
Facebook posts from June
Anita Mathias Prayer is the greatest (and most underestimated) power in the world. Most of us, in fact, live lives of de facto atheism! You praying friends on FB, pls pray that the Lord of the Weather sends me sunshine--or at least no … [Continue reading]
Facebook posts from June
A promise fulfilled. My father took up yoga at 57. Never health-conscious, he became superbly fit, did a hour of yoga daily, walked for an hour, and died a spry 89 in 2005. I promised myself that when I became older and weaker, I would take up yoga. … [Continue reading]
Batter my heart, three person'd God–John Donne
BATTER my heart, three person'd God; for, you As yet but knocke, breathe, shine, and seeke to mend; That I may rise, and stand, o'erthrow mee,'and bend Your force, to breake, blowe, burn and make me new. I, like an usurpt towne, to'another due, … [Continue reading]
Facebook posts from June
It's a fab sunny June here in Oxford; the light filters golden through the thick green leaves in our paddock. Irene is off at the moment, rehearsing as Lady Capulet in Creation Theatre's Workshop production of Romeo and Juliet. Building work … [Continue reading]
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