Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires

Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art

Facebook posts from May

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Zoe is on a Duke of Edinburgh expedition, and it is monsoonishly RAINING. She slept in a tent while we used duvets and heat. I love camping too, (provided Roy and Zoe make camp) but not in the wet. We heard the amazing and energetic Heidi Baker … [Continue reading]

Facebook posts from May

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Massive but brief hailstorm here! Irene turned 10. 10 years of our little rose and sunbeam. Mixed metaphors, but I couldn't decide! She's going to have a camping sleepover as Zoe had for her 9th birthday. I'm praying for good weather, grace, miracles … [Continue reading]

Facebook posts from April

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Another gorgeous bright April day. I enjoyed a solitary walk in the country. Am gripped by Jon Krakauer's book "Into Thin Air" about the tragic Everest 1996 expedition, full of fatal flaws, and am also trying to get back into a writing routine. Also … [Continue reading]

More Facebook posts from April

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Anita Mathias Irene's class is doing Joseph and the Technicolour Dreamcoat at school. Irene's now crazy about Lloyd Webber musicals, so all of us watched The Phantom of the Opera last night, for the first time. Irene was terrified, and screwed her … [Continue reading]

Lilies by Mary Oliver

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Lilies A poem by Mary Oliver I have been thinking about living like the lilies that blow in the fields. They rise and fall in the edge of the wind, and have no shelter from the tongues of the cattle, and have no closets or … [Continue reading]

Ithaca by Constantine Cavafy

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There is as much joy, as much of richness and knowledge in the journey as in the destination.IthacaWhen you set out on your journey to Ithaca,pray that the road is long,full of adventure, full of knowledge.The Lestrygonians and the Cyclops,the angry … [Continue reading]