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WANTING TO BE HERE: Moderation
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WANTING TO BE HERE. Sunday, 24 February 2008. An interesting week and it looks as if the coming seven days will have their moments as well. Nothing like a total lunar eclipse to stir things up. None of it bears blogging about for the moment, but it's been a reminder that life is nothing if unpredictable. Thanks for the comments on the previous post. I hope the coming week is interesting but not problematic! 24 February 2008 at 23:33. I have to limit myself too due to all the other things one has to do...
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WANTING TO BE HERE: February 2008
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WANTING TO BE HERE. Wednesday, 27 February 2008. That freezing weather of a few weeks back is past - for now - sunlight floods the garden and a strong wind blows from the south west. The daffodils are in full flower and those red and yellow tulips are opening. Nearly eleven months later the sight of them once again outside the kitchen window, drawn upwards inexorably through the dark earth by warmth and light, leaves me jubilant and relieved. Sunday, 24 February 2008. Tuesday, 19 February 2008. I think i...
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WANTING TO BE HERE: January 2008
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WANTING TO BE HERE. Tuesday, 29 January 2008. Seem to be doing a lot of blogging lately. It comes and goes. On Sunday I caught the first programme of a new series on BBC2 TV,. Around the World in 80 Gardens. An excerpt from a longer piece on the Cuban urban gardens:. This all created, almost overnight, a new urban gardening culture. By the mid 1990's there were over 28,000 huertos in Havana city province, run by 50-100,000 individuals. Some of this new army of gardeners could remember farming wit...Huert...
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WANTING TO BE HERE: December 2007
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WANTING TO BE HERE. Monday, 31 December 2007. There's something about the words Gratitude List that doesn't sit well with me. Just call me awkward. It brings back memories of false expressions of gratitude uttered to keep the adults happy at times when I was a silently rebellious child. But I do see the real value of paying conscious, thoughtful attention to the good. So now and again I compile a list. Here's mine for 2007. Being able to walk to work. Being able to start again. They are spectacularly bea...
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WANTING TO BE HERE: May 2007
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WANTING TO BE HERE. Thursday, 31 May 2007. Website. Click to enlarge. We found this tiny cafe/art gallery. With exhibits by three different artists: paintings, pottery and - the ones that caught my eye - textile art by Laura McCafferty. At first you smile because the subject matter is often tongue-in-cheek, the figures well-drawn (from life), and the artist's skill with textiles and embroidery and the use of colour and pattern make them a sensory treat. I can't get the link to the artist's website. Forty...
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WANTING TO BE HERE: June 2007
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WANTING TO BE HERE. Saturday, 23 June 2007. Your hand opens and closes and opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as bird wings.- Rumi. Let me tell you, it’s an emotional business when the body reawakens, when rigid muscles are asked to stretch and release. I’m awash with frustration at my own awkwardness and can't shake a...Illness. ...
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WANTING TO BE HERE: August 2007
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WANTING TO BE HERE. Tuesday, 28 August 2007. You know when you have been searching and searching for resolution to a situation that eats away at you, that won't let you be and then another human being speaks the truth about what is happening with such concern in their voice and you understand in the sunburst of shock and clarity and relief that follows that thanks to your companion an illusion has been smashed and you have - to a degree - woken up. I haven't wanted to blog since. View my complete profile.
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WANTING TO BE HERE: April 2007
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WANTING TO BE HERE. Saturday, 28 April 2007. The Kindness of Others. Contemplate the kindness of others in your life, the Buddhist monk said to the fifteen of us. One evening a week he drives over from a centre in Birmingham to conduct a teaching and meditation session in the local Quaker meeting house. The previous week, my first, he talked about making a decision to change the mind. Tonight, dauntingly, it was the need to cherish all living beings. And you will sooner or later become enlightened. If I ...
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WANTING TO BE HERE: Perspectives
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WANTING TO BE HERE. Sunday, 2 March 2008. Compared to the daunting size of some London art galleries the Welsh national collection. Is built on a human scale. The few rooms are relatively small so it is possible to do them all justice in a couple of hours and then, if you wish, to make a day of it and take in the museum part of the building. Just how museums and galleries ought to be. Having been duly beguiled by Renoir. And rendered nostalgic by Sisley. Never Let Me Go. 3 March 2008 at 01:15. Sky: You'r...
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daily straying: October 2006
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New journeys. Hoping to make sense of new territory, internal and external. Tuesday, October 31, 2006. Ok, so, it's like er about 14 hours (here in the UK) to go til the official start of NaNoWriMo. For the uninitiated, it's a collective challenge to write a novel (over 50,000 words) in 30 days. In November. Cons: I have no story to tell. To let go as often as possible. To just believe in my instinct that there is a story to be told and let it unfold in it's own time. Er But then novel writing is a solit...
