R's rue

 I’ve been around my niece and nephews for a bit which means this space took a rest, but what didn’t is what these humans teach me. Whether it’s to sing show tunes at the top of my lungs, or get in the floor and retrieve toys so many times, it is a humbling experience. I’m exhausted, but forever changed by little hands and sweet voices. I do lose my mind and yell sometimes. Then I’m reminded of how many times God gives me what I need to give them:  grace. It all starts there. A few days in the mountains gave me something I forgot I had:  preserverance.   from R's rue https://ift.tt/SQUak8f

What’s the pleural of epiphany?  Whatever the answer maybe, I think I’ve had a succession of “small” epiphanies since my birthday and beyond. When I really think of it, when life changed after lockdown was the real start of it all. When I say epiphanies, what I really mean is ideas and thoughts which have flickered like Christmas Tree fairy lights in and out of my consciousness until they figure more importantly than not in everyday life. Many of these became clearer after my brief break in  Findhorn and the age old red letter day of reaching my 60th birthday. The overall sense of these flickering lights is that I’m now embarking on that final decade(s) of my life and it’s now time for proper change. My father died in his early sixties, my brother at 58 and I’m very aware of my mortality in real terms  Now I’m fully aware that since my husband left me, I have built a new life and career for myself from more or less nothing. I am financially more stable than I...

Simon March 22nd 1956 - July 19th 2022 Farewell, farewell to you who would hear You lonely travellers all The cold north wind will blow again The winding road does call from Yorkshire Pudding https://ift.tt/RQW2P71

  Filmed obviously in 1956 ( continuity forgot to period dress the cast) this little remembered movie of the famous Shute novel proved to be a little hidden gem this morning. Set in Malaya during the war it centres around the plight of a group of English women and children forced to March across the country in search of a prisoner of war camp which will house them. Marie Lohr as Mrs Dudley Frost Renee Houston as Ebbey Virginia McKenna plays the groups pragmatic leader is supported ably by a whole gaggle of British character actors such as Jean Anderson, Marie Lohr, Renee Houston and Nora Nicholson. who play the typical cross section of colonial types later poached by the the series Tenko. It’s a cracking movie, which steals only part of the novel which really concentrates on the love affair between McKenna’s character and a bravura Australian squaddie Peter Finch who is eventually crucified by a sadistic Japanese Captain Yanyata. I really enjoyed it and was kind...