Just recently I came across The Gentle Art of Blessing, by Pierre Pradervand and I’m very keen on reading it. I began to think about the various kinds of blessings I’ve come across and what a blessing really means. To bless means to wish, unconditionally, total, unrestricted good for others and events from the deepest […]
Life and Inspiration
Bloom Today
As I looked for images to share on my post, I found these two pictures on my phone. They’re both images of flowers that I love – the sunshiny allamanda shot in Varca, Goa and the fallen flower, a frangipani, from a path near my home. These photographs inspired me to reflect on the phrase […]
Maybe Grace Is Green | Five Minute Friday
I read the phrase ‘maybe grace is green’ somewhere recently and when I saw that Kate’s prompt this Friday was ‘green’ I had to use the phrase in response. Maybe Grace Is Green She wonders how she’ll go onHow will she pay the bills?Who will look after the childrenWhile she stays to watch overHer husband […]
Is Persistence Always Good?
Did you, like me, grow up reading the story of Robert the Bruce and The Spider? Try, try again was the moral we were told. Despite, this early learning, I confess that persistence is not one of my virtues. I know that about myself. There are plenty of drafts, ideas, unfinished embroidery projects, incomplete note-books […]
Who Do I Resemble?
I was reading an interesting article in The Guardian about three little girls born into three different families but sharing a sperm donor. The article spoke about how these families have tried to let these ‘sisters’ meet often. But something that struck me (and them) is that the noses of the three girls are similar. […]
Am I Peacable?
I looked up the word to use it correctly. The Cambrige Dictionary gives the meaning peacable as : to liking or involving fighting or argument. Am I peacable? I don’t really like to fight or argue. I get upset when I hear someone shouting at another person. Conflict and I were never friends. I got into scrapes only on behalf […]
