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  I haven’t got much to say today. The meeting with village leaders Ian and Helen was productive and we now have a plan regarding getting an action group ready to support the Church , but generally yesterday was pretty quiet and today, I will be working then sleeping in that order. No real magic today, We all need little moments of magic in our lives…..just occasionally  Things to offset the humdrum and the ordinary . Things that we will always remember. A sunset, a view, a glance, an uncontrolled giggle….a moment  …..we all have our little fragments of magic I remember a few years ago now going to The New York Met for the first time. It was to see The Magic Flute  It wasn’t the Opera the took my breath away, even though it was big and brash and extraordinary beautiful but it was the unexpected drama of the Met’s famous Lobmeyr Crystal Chandeliers as they were raised and lowered before the performance. It was a wonderful piece of choreographed magic....

Up the M1 motorway and left at Junction 37 to Silkstone. When our children were small, I wanted us to move there or to nearby Silkstone Common or Cawthorne. They are all smashing villages just west of Barnsley. Ian and Frances would then have enjoyed village childhoods similar to the ones that Shirley and I experienced. But the right house never came up and before you knew it, it was effectively too late for uprooting. Clint was unable to find a suitable place to park his silver butt near All Saints Church so we drove on a mile or two to Barnby Basin where I knew there was a nice little car parking space down the lane along which the Silkstone Waggonway was erected in 1809. Its purpose was to bring tubs of newly hewn  coal to the canal and it serviced the pits around Silkstone for fifty years or more. The dog walker before our conversation It was a lovely three hour walk. The weather was balmy. I spent twenty minutes talking to a dog walker who told me that he has never used...

The memory of yesterday  Propels me forward  To see The beauty  Of today Share with me any favorite memories.  from R's rue https://ift.tt/3iE6Tqc