Haiku: Summer Days
Books stripped of covers exiled to the borders of our Summer’s kingdom
Holidays
Looking Back/Looking Forward: Happy New Year
The family have gone home, DH’s post-Christmas pudding is bubbling gently away on the stove and I’ve a glass of …
Advent ABC:X, Y and Z
Three for the price of one today! The sometime maligned term Xmas is actually perfectly legit. Did you realise that …
Advent ABC: T is for Trust
…Treasure and Travel, all qualities needed on our journey. I’m thinking here of the magi, Kings, astronomers- whatever you want …
Advent ABC: Shepherds
Sprawled in dreams on distant hills, shielding flocks from dark dusk chill. Star-burst sparks sprayed them with light, tearing …
Advent ABC Intermission
…inspired by Jill Kuhn of Weird Birds fame on repurposing Christmas cards, (love the snazzy sweaters by the way!), I’m happy …
Advent ABC: P is for Prophets
Ev’ry valley shall be exalted, and ev’ry mountain and hill made low; the crooked straight and the rough places plain. …
Advent ABC:’O’ Antiphons
The great O Antiphons of Advent in Western Christian tradition are chanted or recited at Evening Prayer during the …
Advent ABC: Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols
We have a Christmas Eve custom in our house, daughter and I. Come mid afternoon, we sit down …
Advent ABC: Mary
…Mother of Christ, Mother of God, loved and revered. Wherever you fall theologically on several millenia of marian devotion, that …
Advent ABC: L is for Lullaby and Love
If you’re a large grey pachyderm in need of some shut eye, what’s your favourite way of doing it? Even …
Advent ABC: K is for King
Two carols for the price of one! Like the unspecified number of eastern potentates I, too, have been traversing afar …