Category: Ten Things of Thankful
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Ten Things of Thankful
Today is 5th November: fireworks, concussion, bonfires, and the burning of effigies rooted in old religious violence. The noise is physically painful for me, but more than that, I find the spectacle of cheering while a human likeness burns utterly repellent. There is nothing about this day that I enjoy. It feels brutal; I therefore…
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Ten Things of Thankful
I. Still Rooted Thankful that the storms left no real damage behind. The trees held their footing, the roof held its nerve, and once the clouds moved on, the solar panels quietly went back to work. II. Nature Tidies Up Thankful that the wind gathered all the fallen leaves into neat little piles in the…
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Ten Things of Thankful
A week of resilience in ordinary things. Rain returns. Numbers behave. A crow keeps me company. A storm tests the house. Summer is folded away. Creativity finds another instrument. Sussex reminds you where home is. Two stories keep moving. A passport arrives. The roof holds. I. Rain Again Thankful for two days of rain and…
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16.10 Ten Things of Thankful
Not necessarily the ten largest things. Only ten that made me stop long enough to notice. I. Provexity I. Provexity Thankful to learn a new word: provexity — the advanced state of being well grown in years. A seventeenth-century word for great age, and far more elegant than simply saying someone has been around a very long time.long time. II. Tick Tick Tick Thankful for one of those rare…
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Ten Things of Thankful
I. The Pike Thankful to meet a child content with the simple pleasure of fishing. He told me there was a great pike in that water and that one day he would catch it … and then let it go at once. Some dreams are not about keeping what you find. II. Better Late Thankful…
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Ten Things of Thankful
Please note that there’s currently a bug in WordPress’s Jetpack Mobile iOS app where images don’t load. They’re working on it, they say. This post is best viewed in your browser. I. Solar Thankful that the solar panels went onto the house and garage roof on Monday, and we are now generating roughly twice the…
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Ten Things of Thankful
I. Archives Thankful for moments when centuries condense into a single instant, and full circle becomes something almost physical. This week, I stood before a flame-scorched sixteenth-century copy of Le Grand Herbier en Françoys, and for a moment, history was no longer behind glass. This image is from the Internet Archive as photography was not…
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Ten Things of Thankful
I. Faith in all its universal varied forms, and for friends who hold one not higher than another. There is something deeply civilised in making room for reverence without turning it into a contest. II. Thankful for gargoyles — gloriously grotesque, beautifully expressive, and still managing to communicate across the centuries. Some faces simply refuse…
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Ten Things of Thankful
This has been a very good week, despite the sober appearance of the woman above — moments of reflection, discovery, and connecting with a change in the weather. I. Bookshelves! Once, our long wall was covered with them, now we have four: reference, cookery books, road maps folded along old journeys, mementoes tucked between them…
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17 March: TToT
This is my contribution to the Wakefield Doctrine’s traditional contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. For Barbara, and her ability to read the weave of peripheral thoughts, like her poem this week “Wednesday Observations” at Wet Weather Spring. For morning sunlight through a daffodil blossom (photo above). The scent of wood smoke in…
