Behind me the other day, as I sat reading my book, was a conversation about nutrition, about the additives and unhealthiness of food…. when a comment was made “that all the plastics in our food was what they say is causing…
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I’ve just been to pick up a book at the library, it’s called The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit. I’m not ready for it, as I am still about 200 pages away from finishing one, but sometimes this is just…
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What if all you could offer the world was kindness? to a week that starts in wonder and worry and quickly descends into chaos and confusion disappointment and disbelief and you find yourself unable to sleep suddenly everything is LOUD…
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I don’t understand… I don’t understand meanness in the world I don’t want to listen to loud angry voices insults and accusations rhetoric and banter lies and plagiarism nasty words seeking victims and for one minute think that this is…
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This week, my youngest child graduated high school. Our years of public and secondary school are now officially behind us. For many years, when my children were small, I volunteered at the school. I helped children with fine motor skills,…
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I am very fond of my birthday. I suppose it comes from my Mother’s ability to always make us feel very special for that one fabulous day, in any small way she could. I’m not a big fan of…
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it’s nearing the end of October and skies have been very grey wet, dreary cool and windy days have kept me indoors but today the sun shines bright a lovely surprise arrives from a friend and my wings begin to flutter…
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the sweetest little sparrow sits beside me at the window quietly every so often he taps so that I will look up from my book to notice him he is sheltering from the rain just under the edge he is…
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stepping out large blue bowl of compost in hand heading to the far corner of the garden a fairly mundane task I’m looking down watching carefully as I step with two dogs and rather long grass this has become my…
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a·maz·ing əˈmāziNG/ adjective – causing great surprise or wonder; astonishing. informal – startlingly impressive. I work at a job that I am quite certain I am not entirely suited for, it is hard, physical and most unlike anything I have done…
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