Don’t you love it when ideas effervesce and your mind froths with enthusiasm. You have a brilliant theme for the A – Z Challenge and are brimful of confidence. It was easy to see how reflecting on values had potential to see one through the challenge. I know. Too easy. Except it was not. And Zed,…
I have no clever offering for today’s letter – X. Instead I thought about the words that began with the letter and aside from the usual and drawing a blank I asked the MOTH (Man of The House). Xanadu, was all he said and my mind was revelling in it’s convoluted stream of consciousness towards…
Once spoken our words cannot be unspoken, retracted or unheard. They are there forever to heal, encourage, and bring hope. They can forever be remembered as hurtful and unnecessary too. I know I have spoken out on more than one occasion I wish I had not. We have all done it at some point. Hell,…
When you’ve been in boarding school since the age of five, feeling detached and apart from people in general becomes ingrained in your psyche. You cannot escape feeling detached and when you are scared that others may not want you around because they feel your disconnection. Those first years in boarding school were like being…
The Bible tells us that we are fearfully and wonderfully made (Ps. 139:14) and indeed there are no carbon copies of me, you or anyone else. Even identical twins aren’t definitively identical. We wear our peculiarities as evidence of the environments to which we have adjusted; like childhood, school, college, marriage, the workforce and in-law families.…
I have had a blessed life in many respects. Not because my parents were infallible or I, Pollyanna, rather because I benefitted from the value my parents placed on ‘a good education’. My single biggest gratitude is the education I received. Of course a good education starts and ends with books. My love of reading…
My first camera was a box Brownie followed by the Brownie 127. I took to photography early and the original box Brownie was easy to use, unlike its big brother the Brownie 127. I found this model more difficult to handle with its button to release the shutter instead of the lever. For an…
The optimism of others is good for me. My own optimism must be as good for me as it is for others too. It is an attitude with a hopeful outlook on life. It imagines the possibilities that many of us walk by on a daily basis. The Oxford English Dictionary defines optimism as having…
Every day since 1 August 2006 when I sat at my desk and stared at the concrete wall across the courtyard I am thankful to that still small voice that encouraged me away from what had become a depressing rut. For a small voice it had a lot of momentum. I had reached a fork in the…
