Here is the link to a post, just published, on the Throssel blog titled Everything in the ‘Garden’ is Buzzing.
Wild Life – in The Garden
Category Archives: photograph
Ever Together – Bee Delight
we are one
Labouring on
and up.
Ever Together.
Inspired by the multiple feeding Bees on the Aconite, currently in full bloom. And also by a 13-year-old me who wrote more or less what appears here. Thanks to the Bees for keeping going, on.
Being Alive
Random….
Monty
Litter pick up
Here are some images taken while I have been away on renewal/rest/ retreat. Too bad I couldn’t catch a photograph of the Kingfisher or the Red kite I saw. Or the Otter!
The pony with upper lip hair was a first for me. The balloon found in a field a sad reminder of what gets sent up into the air in celebration and then lands as litter.
Monty the Tortoise featured in last year’s renewal time and here he is again. He loves his salad.
Picking up litter recreationally? It takes all sorts to make up this big wild world and thank goodness for that. Enjoy with me the scone, jam, cream and fresh strawberries I ordered to celebrate – being alive.
New Monk Joins the Community
Yes, we have a new monk who was ordained on the February 20th. Such a total delight.
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The ‘Black Hole’
This post has been republished a few times now. I love that this card from my father turned up within the last couple of years amongst some old holiday cards in the monastery stash, which were available to be recycled. I believe my dad found this time of year quite difficult although he would never talk about ‘low mood’ but would mention the ‘black hole’ and note it in cards or conversations to me. So he obviously noticed ‘something’ going on, as I do.
Yes, it gets dark earlier in the afternoon and light later in the mornings until Black Hole Day when the tide turns and the daylight gets longer, nights shorter. Slowly. My dad would mark the weeks when there was little change in the day lengths as The Black Hole. Not an easy time of year for any of us and many supplement with extra light.
From my late father’s card, 1988.
Happy Christmas holiday and new year. Hope you don’t have to do too much cooking. Hope the Black Hole is not sitting on your back – anyway it is nearly black hole day – 21 Dec Winter Solstice which is far more important than Xmas to me.
Note December 2020. Little did my father know that cooking for the monastic community is an honor and a privilege. Currently, I am cooking lunch each Saturday for the community which numbers around 20 monks and postulants.