Month: June 2024
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Storm at Sea
So the SongWave Choir have finished their weekend series of concerts, Singing up a Storm, and we exhausted but energised singers are recuperating. After presenting a huge accumulation of metaphors, relating to sea and sand, water and nurture, hearth and home and shelter from the storm, we’ve sung ourselves hoarse. I believe the concerts, which…
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Embarrassed by the busy bees
We didn’t think the lovely orange ball tree (Buddleja globosa) was in quite such a flurry of blossom last year, but the intense cold, for these parts, seemed to have prevented lots of floribundance. The plants are making up for it this summer. And the bees were as busy on this tree as I’ve ever…
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The Taste of Summer
So . . . when you wipe out on water skisgliding across a placid lake in north Ontario —well! You let go of the rope. First.But not before half the lake’s been forceddown your throat and when you gasp up into airyou’re bobbing alone in the middlewhile the boat circles back and you wavecoz you’re…
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Bells of joy . . .
It’s been a bit breezy these past few days, here in the GlenKens, so we’ve been enjoying the wind chimes rather a lot. Compared with our previous life high up on a fellside of the bleak and blustery North Pennines, of course, these southwest Scotland zephyrs are like balm to the resting soul. I managed…
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Compartmentalisation: co-existence of deep sorrow and cheerful joy
I’m holding a few emotions, thought processes, musings and bewilderments, in separate compartments of my mind, just at the moment. On the one hand, deep sorrow, but in another compartment joy bubbles up. Sometimes the compartments feel like they’re mirroring each other, only upside down and backwards. Frank laziness in one cupboard while persistent creativity…
Roads to Joy 