Posted in church, learning on 29 February, 2008 | 14 Comments »
I am a perpetual beginner. A generalist, an amateur. The sort of person who will learn to knit every stitch in the book, but will never complete a project beyond ‘cat-nip mouse’ (which was itself a creative exercise: I had no pattern, and it was the first time I’d decreased stitches to a [...]
Posted in blog on 27 February, 2008 | 5 Comments »
A day of goodness:
blue skies
at last finding the right spiritual director after many years of trying
a random stranger recommending a CD on the train
wooden puzzles
a new book in a series of mysteries I thought had ended– light frivolous reading, much needed right now.
chocolate cake (Lent? Really? It feels more like Pentecost.)
easy train journeys
light [...]
Posted in blog on 26 February, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I thought I’d done well to come away from Iona without taking anything — no shells, no stones, just a bit of sand clinging to my boots.
But today, I realised that I hadn’t quite left empty handed. Oh no. For somewhere along the line I picked up ‘the clergy wives’ cold’. That sorts out which [...]
Posted in blog on 23 February, 2008 | 1 Comment »
An excercize in circular linking:
I found this blog after it’s author found beauty from chaos. Much there to ponder and enjoy.
(And her readers say such encouraging things about the Lent blog, too.)
Posted in blog on 23 February, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I offer you this, from the BBC, to put Molly’s trauma in the toilet bowl in perspective.
Posted in blog on 18 February, 2008 | 12 Comments »
I thought I was imagine it.
Everything happening at once. Phones, doorbells, plumbers, crises. Everything conspiring against me as I tried to clear the to do list and get ready for Iona.
Surely it’s me, just having a day of stressy not-coping, imagining it is all worse than it is.
But I know now that is [...]
Posted in Scottish Episcopal Church on 16 February, 2008 | 8 Comments »
The SEC was at the Scottish Wedding Show for the first time today. Worth it till about four. Deadly thereafter. Thank God for the hats that relieved boredom. Photo of wedding show clergy below — but for the provost kissing model brides on the cat-walk, you will have to buy Sunday’s [...]
Posted in blog on 14 February, 2008 | 3 Comments »
to the few who retain the right to celebrate:
Happy Spinsterfest.
Posted in blog on 14 February, 2008 | 2 Comments »
In January, I found a handy new to-do list. It’s long and narrow. It has lots of white space and different visual regions that suit the way I think. It has a handy space for notes on the facing page, and an ego-boosting, stress relieving column where you get to tick things off as you [...]
Posted in blog on 12 February, 2008 | 3 Comments »
My mother used to say ‘never trust people who don’t like animals. It usually means they don’t like people either.’
Now, I was always a bit dubious of that advice, because the opposite doesn’t necessarily follow. I can think of plenty of people who love animals, but are quite indifferent to human beings. [...]
