Month: November 2023

• The encompassing comfort of family and friends . . .

  In normal times, I guess, family and friends are just ‘there,’ part of our lives but busy with their own circumstances too. It’s when crises arise that our support network coalesces and keeps us going. I have been the focus of a crisis or two, as it happens, when my beloved might have collapsed under…

  Larry Winger

  November 28, 2023

  Challenges, Community, Musings, Togetherness

• Cleaning out the eyrie

  There are two bells in the New Galloway Town Hall tower: the larger one is bonged either by a hammer engaged with the clock mechanism, or by its pendulous clapper when the stout bell-ringing rope is pulled; the smaller one, with a higher tone, which rings only when its own rope is pulled. I know…

  Larry Winger

  November 28, 2023

  Mental Health, Togetherness