No words today; just memories of the whimsy, the wildlings, the wonders, and the worries which have been at my table this spring.
No words today; just memories of the whimsy, the wildlings, the wonders, and the worries which have been at my table this spring.
As a slow-moving, slow-thinking, stay-at-homer, living without the aid of a Fitbit to keep track of myself, I am inclined to fall into the habit of believing that my day’s achievements equal little more than washing out and washing in; and that’s on a relatively well-organized day. 😀 However, if I stop for a moment and put on my old-fashioned considering cap , I slowly begin to understand that I have been achieving. Indeed, almost over-achieving 😉 .
For example, in this past first week of the New Year, I have, amongst other things, baked two delicious cakes, a loaf of yogurt bread, and two hearty desserts. I have been on some favourite summertime walks. I have caught up with most of my blog reading and commenting. And I have decluttered the inner workings of my faithful old Toshiba laptop so that it performs faster and more efficiently than it has done in years. Hooray! Oh, and, let’s not forget, I have given my husband a handsome haircut. ( It’s taken me more than thirty years to get up the courage to take on the haircutting! )
But of more importance, and beyond any of these achievements, has been my week of keeping tabs on my BEING; specifically on my Grateful Being. Many people write a gratitude journal but this is the first time I have done so. It was much harder work than I expected, but I am pleased I persevered with it.
So, if you have a moment to spare, draw up a chair, put on your considering caps, and make what you will of my 7 days of random gratitudes.
Here I go….. grateful for
and grateful, too, for my new Nextbook, for my ability to sleep soundly through the Wilberforce earthquake, and grateful for the fact that our Christmases don’t all come at once.
My final gratitude is reserved for the wonderful weeds that grow like flowers in my garden.
© silkannthreades
I am thinking about love…..and our expression of it. I am thinking about Bishop Valentine before he became Saint; about Saint Valentine before he became Valentine. I am thinking about who he was, or who they were , and what they may have become….the dream sales team for the business of Valentine’s Day? 🙂 But, mostly, I am thinking of love.
Not romantic love so much as the love which is extolled in the hymn, For the Beauty of the Earth;
“The love which from our birth over and around us lies“….the “human love of brother, sister, parent, child”….the love from “friends on earth and friends, above“, the love that comes from “gentle thoughts and mild”.
And I am thinking of how that love finds its form in the most unexpected places,
where, for the most part, it sits in quiet, patient, unobtrusive abundance,
waiting to support us, when called upon,
and ever willing to send us gentle, trans-formative love letters ~
“You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope.” Thomas Merton
love letters that help us to see that the loving heart, contained within,
can be released and applied, like nature’s salve, to heal the woe of the broken landscape.
© silkannthreades
Dear Friends
In my previous post, on Joy and Woe, your loving, supportive, compassionate comments brought me tears, laughter and a huge amount of joy. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. This post is my Valentine’s love letter to you all.
The Blessings of Saint Valentine (whoever he may be!), chocolate, flowers , gentle thoughts and mild, and love, be with you all.
Gallivanta.