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"...it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean" ~ Socrates
Hi folks. Hope you all had lovely Christmas. I pray for you all a healthful and peaceful 2010. A bit about our Christmas. Though things were very different (and at times, very difficult) for us as a family, we did manage to enjoy our Christmas very much. As you probably gather from the wording in the previous [...]
This year I decided to make you, my dear friends, a virtual Christmas card rather than sending Christmas cards abroad throughout the world. Partly this was for financial reasons and partly because I decided to make a small contribution to charity instead. I created the card below on a bit of a whim and i’m surprised [...]
I’m no domestic goddess but I certainly feel like the culinary queen of my own little kitchen when I follow a recipe and it actually works without my messing it up! I was thrilled, yes, thrilled i tell you, when I achieved success using Delia’s recipe for Christmas Chutney/Dried Fruit Chutney. This chutney can, of course, be [...]
Tis (almost) the season to be jolly…ho ho OOOOOOOOOOOO. Anyway, you know i like to cook? You do know that by now don’t you? Well I have got in to preserving (and persevering!) in a BIG way in the last couple of months. I’m going to post about my most recent culinary endeavour first as it is highly seasonal [...]
…i doubt it. Having returned once more to blogging this very day, I have discovered that during my cyber absence, some people chose to bump me off their blogrolls/google readers etc. Had i not such thick skin (actually i’m pretty thick everywhere but we won’t go into that!) I may have been hurt, but I have more [...]
As mentioned in the previous post, Wondergirl turned 18 years old yesterday. To celebrate, Mum and Dad paid for us to go to London for a day trip on the Saturday before her birthday. We got up really early on Saturday morning, caught the train to London and spent the whole day there, not getting [...]
I am now the proud mother of an adult daughter…because Wondergirl turned 18 (Monday) today! To celebrate, my parents paid for us to travel to London for a day trip – in the next post i will include the pictures from our London trip and try to upload a couple of short videos we took while [...]
I’ve been experiencing the extreme version of life’s big dipper ride of late…it seems that I get stuck on the ‘lows’ rather too frequently for comfort and the highs are far too fleeting for me to grasp on to for any length of time. In other words…. life has sucked big time lately. I can’t seem to [...]
Pray and do not be apprehensive about anything; do not be afraid of trouble or misfortune, for prayer will protect you and sustain you in all circumstances~ St. John Chrysostom, 4th century Posted in Daily Meditation Medication, Faith Matters, Inspiration
"Writing can be a true spiritual discipline. Writing can help us to concentrate, to get in touch with the deeper stirrings of our hearts, to clarify our minds, to process confusing emotions, to reflect on our experiences, to give artistic expression to what we are living, and to store significant events in our memories. Writing can also be good for others who might read what we write.
Quite often a difficult, painful, or frustrating day can be "redeemed" by writing about it. By writing we can claim what we have lived and thus integrate it more fully into our journeys. Then writing can become lifesaving for us and sometimes for others too."