kirtle

The book group book I'm reading at the moment is a novel about Pendle witches and I'm discovering things that not being into history, have somehow passed me by. I didn't know that people used to be fined if they didn't attend church, for example. I know not everyone might agree, but I feel the choices open to us currently are immense (especially when compared to the past, tho i'm a believer that we all have choices always. I guess the consequences can change, leaving us feeling more or less restricted depending on the consequences of those choices).
A word that keeps appearing is kirtle, and I sometimes says it out loud, or at least form the word with my mouth, as there's something rather magnificent about it. I've always had a penchant for words beginning with a k.
This morning I have been doing a mish-mash of my 3 jobs at the same time. I'm glad to be heading off to just the one at once!
I hope you encounter lovely words today.

The ones I have thought of today include
Kugelhopf, katzen, kirsch, kaput and Kierkegaard

resonance

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“You don’t measure love in time. You measure love in transformation. Sometimes the longest connections yield very little growth, while the briefest of encounters change everything. The heart doesn’t wear a watch - it’s timeless. It doesn’t care how long you know someone. It doesn’t care if you had a 40 year anniversary if there is no juice in the connection. What the heart cares about is resonance. Resonance that opens it, resonance that enlivens it, resonance that calls it home. And when it finds it, the transformation begins…”
― Jeff Brown

I like this quote. I believe in the transformative power of love. I think it helps when we are open to the resonance, and that we can experience it daily if we look out :-)

The other way around

Having helped to crowdfund David LaMotte's latest CD, I received my copy of it last week. I think my favourite lyrics are in the last track "Just one candle" based on St Francis of Assisi's words that "All the darkness in the world can't extinguish the light of just one candle". Amongst other things the song speaks of how when someone dies their light remains - just like the stars we see now actually stopped existing some time ago but their light shines on. Powerful stuff.

Here for a good time not a long time

I'd not heard this phrase until the last year or so, and now am frequently reminded of it. I worry more than needed and my cautious inclinations can squish the joy out of living. Today I'm reading at a baptism, and its the one about the lillies of the field not worrying.
And so yesterday I decided not to fret about costs, that everything will be fine with money this time next year, and so to enjoy this weekend now whilst it's happening. I was like a big kid on the final train. For me the point was the journey rather than the destination, I was so excited about seeing the rivulets and the patterns in the sand, and marvelling at the engineering that meant we could cross water by train. In comparison other passengers were dozing, maybe this is a regular commute for them? I'm perhaps the same, working in Blackpool where I just get frustrated by traffic at the same time people next to me are excitedly enjoying their holidays.
I'm a big believer tho in enjoying life on the way, hope you enjoy all your metaphorical and actual journeys today :-)

take two

Last Saturday was such a lovely day. The week since has felt trying. Today is Saturday once more and there are options open. We might try again to do what we'd planned last weekend and weren't able to. That costs money tho and I'm not sure if i can in my mind extend my birthday treat this far. Staying at home to read and get jobs done is free, but won't create the same memories. And I'm not saying we can't find joy in the mundane. Just that I already have plenty of memories of cleaning the bathroom and hoovering, yet have never been to grange.

we'll see (you'll know from what photos I share)

I made myself giggle - I was tempted to share a photo of the bathroom grime that is still there. But I thought you'd prefer these - one from the train window whilst going over the causeway, one that includes an island with lots of trees (I preferred grange to lytham despite some similarities, because I just need trees. Finally, the afternoon tea was fab. I still have the choc brownies for another sitting.

blink and you miss it?

It's been a while since I found the time to accompany my boyfriend on the dog walk. To be fair I didn't manage much dogwalking myself today either , I mainly took pics to share with you :)

These flowers - to me - seem to have come from nowhere, and are lovely.

Note to self - stop being too busy.

rain rain rain

It's chucking it down today and I need lights on to work. Metaphorically apt too as once again there seems to be several tricky situations needing my good thinking all at the same time - why does that happen? The good news is tho that the phrase "rain rain rain" makes me think of a One Voice song we sing that then goes "glorious rain" and is about showers of blessings.
Hope that's the kind of rain you're getting too :)