Sending a hug
As many
As I can
So many
Hurt people
Hurting each other
Out of fear
Of what
Isn’t known
Love yourself and one another
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Snowfall
Snow was promised and so it came to pass. No late visit to the supermarket last night because that snow was falling steadily from 7pm onwards. Why risk skidding around and potentially having a costly accident when you don't absolutely have to go out?
And so this was the view from our kitchen window when I arose this morning - three or four inches of the white stuff. Not cocaine.
With my quiz pals, I was meant to go to Buxton today for a slap up lunch and drinks all covered by our quiz winnings but we postponed yesterday when we saw the weather forecast. Buxton in The High Peak is the highest market town in England and they really know about winter weather up there. It is twenty eight miles west of Sheffield but in a different climate zone. Talk about global warming up there and they'll laugh at you.
Yesterday, I needed a walk but I didn't wish to drive so I put my boots on, crossed the main road and walked the length of Bannerdale Road - right down to the bottom. Then I took a path up through the allotments that nestle below the woods on Brincliffe Edge. It's a steep climb up to Brincliffe Edge Road so a bench near the top was very welcome.
Then a woman with two dogs came along and said, "I know you don't I?"
At first I didn't recognise her and my first inner thought was, "Oh-oh. Did I do something wrong?" but I needn't have worried.
It was the Irish lady - Fidelma - who gave me three car loads of free walling stone in the summer. See here. I did not recognise her at first because her hair was different and she was wearing new glasses. But soon we were rapping away with each other again.
I find that that is how it can be with some people. You fall into easy conversation and could carry on interminably. We just seemed to be on the same wavelength - there under the trees, with the ground carpeted in bronze, russet and yellow autumn leaves and her two dogs sniffing hither and thither - not their names!
On Netflix I just watched a recent documentary film from Colombia called "The Lost Children" which is nothing to do with "The Lost Schoolgirl". A light plane came down in dense jungle and all three adults on board were killed but four children survived - the youngest aged only eleven months.
They wandered away from the crash site and afterwards the Colombian military along with an indigenous search party struggled to locate them. But forty days after the crash, the children were all found alive! Joy upon joy!
The style of the documentary was unfamiliar which made it all the more engaging. And it was nice to watch something that was so hopeful.
Below, a random photo of allotment No. 19 under Brincliffe Edge. There are around sixty allotments on the sloping ground that can all be rented from Sheffield City Council. Here citizens can grow vegetables and fruit. A few even keep chickens which is a popular pastime with urban foxes. Allotment No. 19 suggests that the tenant may be lacking in enthusiasm though clearly all is not lost.
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Stoke
Lord
Lead me
In your ways
And remind
Me that
I’m not in charge
Of fixing
The problem
I’m just not
To stoke it in
My attempt
For attention
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Place
Cold and rainy
Warm drink
And fuzzy slippers
Worship songs
On repeat
As focus
Is directed
In its
Rightful place.
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Help
Help! Now available in novel form, my story, "The Lost Schoolgirl" has become a runaway success - so much so that the publishers are planning to launch a second edition. Trouble is they are demanding a different cover design for the book. I have only been given two choices - above or below. Which would you pick and why?
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I have exactly the same dilemma in relation to the film version of "The Lost Schoolgirl". You may remember that I sold the rights to a Hollywood-based film production company called Scamalot. They have asked me to pick a cinema poster style that could influence the overall mood of the film (American: movie). Which would you pick and why? Above or below?
P.S. These A.I. images were in truth made rapidly using Microsoft Bing Image Creator
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air
Enjoy the sunshine
It’s the natural
Mood booster
Lord
Thank you
Enjoying
The small things
Begins
With the goodness
That never ceases
To make
The biggest smiles
Appear
Out of
Thin air
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compassion
As I start
The day
Center my soul
Where it’s needed
Humbly guide
My sinful nature
To lean
Into goodness
Love and humility
As your child
Called to greater
Compassion and grace
For those who test
My ability
To display kindness
It seems
That those
Who have it all
Need it most
Love yourself
And one another
Has taken
On a new meaning
For me
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