Restorative Reminders
“We must talk together. For though the world is not five hours old an evil has already entered it.” —C.S. Lewis And here we are now with our world being 4. 5 billion years. The oldest rocks are about 3.8…
In my own story I have sheepishly admitted that I enjoyed the pandemic lockdown stretches because it gave a jerking halt to my extra busy life, mostly socially. I had so much time hearing the birds in the distance while…
These are just the ordinary beats of life – the charming old mornings, half-opened eyes, going back to sleep, dreaming again. Somewhere birds are chirping. A sense of cool amber dawn intense-ing. A feeling of something renewed. You call this…
It is occasionally a brilliant thing to delight in the ordinaries of life, takin’ some sublime breaks, soaking into the mundane, non-frilly, just plain life. Sometimes the ordinary is a more vivid gust of crisp air in the otherwise strikingly-aplomb-fancy-life…
“When all the suns and nebulae have passed away, each one of you will still be alive.” – C. S. Lewis Gazing up in the dark sky of the cityscape I miss seeing the stars of the universe. “They have…
“The most excruciating thing, though, had been maintaining a normal life…” -Haruki Murakami, Men Without Women. Once upon a time, in the year nineteen sixty-eight, when the digital newspaper was non-existent, The British Sunday Times made an offer of £5,000…
this week stretched me aggressively in my emotional and mental capacity. Just like a rusted iron rod. The rod may have structural integrity but since we have left it there the rust overpowers it. The stagnant water is so glued…
this warm tiny voice grew up to give a voice to many people John grew up on a farm. An ordinary farm somewhere in southern Alabama, with its usual attributes, had chickens, cattle and horses! Here John at the age…
i hope to continue this conversation for as long as you let me into your lives on an ordinary weekend afternoon. Hi there! I am wonderfully and plainly delighted by the unadorned ordinary things. They create enough rhythm in life…
attend to the details with optimism. We see, but we do not notice. We hear but do not listen. We are not blinded, but we have blinders. Until now this year has been a year of drizzles and downpours, of…