I can still remember the occasion as if it was yesterday, although it is over 60 years ago now. It happened in our living room and Mom had gotten down to my 5 year old level so she wasn’t towering over me. Good school teacher techniques. “Do you think you would like to learn to… Continue reading My fundamental self-2nd January 2023
Tag: Memories
Hang on to the good things-31st December 2022
New Year’s Eve…I am sitting at my desk and I am thinking back over the year that was, for me, a holding place, a place left at the starting blocks, a year when I never really got going properly. I KNOW I am not alone in this feeling. Several things happened today that really lifted… Continue reading Hang on to the good things-31st December 2022
Inspiration-26th Mar 2022
This blog has been such an interesting journey for me so far. Because I am looking at my things with a view to capturing something of how I feel about them in a photo, all manner of memories are coming to the surface as I go along. This morning, I was tired. Bone tired. Doing… Continue reading Inspiration-26th Mar 2022
Seeing with new eyes-2nd March 2022
I am so mindful of the things we are experiencing in the world as I write this. We are now seeing horrors in Europe that we had hoped we could relegate to the past. They have never stopped happening, of course. Mankind has a particular talent for inflicting misery on his fellow man and another… Continue reading Seeing with new eyes-2nd March 2022
Remembering a friend-20th Feb 2022
I wasn’t going to write anything today. Late start. Foul, cold weather. Online church meeting. Cooking, washing up. nap, online family chat…..loads of things really. But in the background of all of that I have been remembering a dear friend who died a year ago today. He was not so young, the horrible cancer that… Continue reading Remembering a friend-20th Feb 2022
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