- feel if I'm alive
- take life prolonging meds
- do Lectio 365
- see if spouse is alive
- make us both a cup of tea
- do ablutions
- collect daily washing ,start washing machine
- GO INTO BACKYARD & LOOK AT AURICULA THEATRE
- peg washing on line
- make porridge for spouse
- prepare breakfast for self
- go to Wydale or Filey Parish on Zoom (weekdays except Tuesdays)
Tuesday, May 03, 2022
Theatre of the not absurd
Thursday, January 06, 2022
Little Gidding, Pete Greig , and Mental Health
My friends all know that I love Poetry.
We had a huge cull of books when we moved back into the cottage 10 years ago , and left a room which was furnished from floor to ceiling with bespoke bookshelves made by the craftsman Malcolm Johnson .Colin loaded up Mother's sholley with books several times a day and walked to the Charity Shops with the load until we were advised they could not receive any more. I kept all my Poetry books, most shelf space now after my Botany books.
Little Gidding is my Adlesdrop place, as I did pass through it unwontedly on the way to Yorkshire from London avoiding motorways. I always knew it had been a religious community of the strict High Anglican sort , but not having ever read the Four Quartets that pleasure was to come. Pete Greig always surprises me with his rhetoric , his writings and his vision,and I value his contribution to the stability of my mental health. He writes on 4th Jan
that
Reading today's headlines, I'm reminded of a line from T.S. Eliot, who died on this day in 1965: ‘Christ is the still point of the turning world' .....
it has become my necessary daily practice simply to sit in silence and stillness each morning for a few minutes,......
But I believe that God’s quiet invitation to each one of us at the start of this year is this: ‘Be still and know that I am God.’ (Psalm 46:10). We know ‘of’ God through the bible but we actually know him through the practice of silence, stillness and solitude. Good doctrine is dead without doxology. This was something I experienced deeply and cumulatively during my three week solitary pilgrimage from Iona to Lindisfarne in October. ..............
It warms my heart that I am not the only person to have heard of and employ 'no dig' and my joy will be complete when Mike and the rest of the Allotment association buy NO Peat compost for the site SHOP.
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