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A Skinny Fairtrade Latte in the Food Court of Life - Page 773

  • A Little Light Relief

    Today I received through the post a little book called The World's Stupidest Signs.  As I flicked through I spotted this one which made me smile...

    MEMO

    Any member of staff who needs to take the day off to go to a funeral must warn the foreman on the morning of the match.

    I know, small things amuse small minds.

  • Nothing but Love...

    In an attempt some sort of routine into my world of enforced idleness, I have decided each day will begin with the pray-as-you-go meditation (I typed medication first, maybe that's true too!).  Today's began with a Taize chant that was new to me... Gott ist nur liebe. 'God is nothing but love,' so the recording tells me.  Sometimes hearing something in a different language, or at least translated from a different language, gives new insights or nuances to the more familiar.

    God is love - the usual English language way of saying it.

    God is nothing but love - somehow that has a deeper feel to it.  And if God is nothing but love how does that shape our loves?

    You can hear the song here or the meditation here

  • Pretty Treacherous

    Today it has looked absolutely beautiful from my window - clear blue skies and sparkly white ground.  I decided I needed some fresh air, so I donned my boots, my big coat, a warm hat and set off... on reaching the front door it was clear that underfoot was not snow but ice.  Still, I was determined to get out so I ventured the steps and onto the pavement.  It was very, very slippery and my planned walk to the public park became instead a tentative totter to the retail park and back.  My growing list of empathic experiences now includes a glimspe into the world of frail elderly people who are perforce housebound in icy weather.  I am sure it is good for me to learn all this empathy... but all at once?!

    Fortunately I have adequately stocked cupboards (not the reason for my destination!), a cauldron of soup bubbling away in the kitchen and plenty of stuff to read, watch to listen to in my cosy flat.

    I'm just glad I don't need to move my car as you could hold a curling match on the car park...

  • It's All Academic

    My challenge for next week... tidy up my MPhil submission so that I can get it formally into the 'system' before entering the 'forest' at the start of February.

    Among the reasons for this is a secret desire to be able graduate alongside my bestest minister friend who is submitting her PhD at around the same time to the same university.  It'd be quite nice for the NB(L)C Class of 2003 to have the two of us celebrating together methinks.

    I have completed one university qualification in each decade of my adult life, assuming my forties would see this reach its conclusion as I was scheduled to complete my doctorate in 2012.  Maybe now it's the MPhil in the forties with the possibilty of the PhD in my fifties...?

    Is the limiting factor perhaps how many letters can fit on the church noticeboard?!

     

  • Beautiful Day

    The snow has returned to Glasgow and the views from my windows with morning sun glinting on snow-crowned tenenments are a-maz-ing, as is the more distant splendour of the fells...

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    City life can be very beautiful indeed