2018 Grateful 11
I’ve never been so grateful to have faith, to believe in my God. I needed Him this week more than I have in a long
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2018 Grateful 12
We’re more than half-way through our four weeks in Thailand and I’m missing home, just a tad. It’s a peculiar feeling, not one I’m used
2018 Grateful 13
I’ve been trying to figure out how long it’s been, he said. Seventeen years, I replied. Almost to the week, I added. Mad really.
2018 Grateful 14
This day, about 13 years ago, I was lighting candles in St Thomas’s Cathedral in Chennai. The lovely SF was very ill at the time
2018 Grateful 15 | Meditations while oiling the garden furniture
I’ve gone a whole week without doing myself damage – am impressed with myself. I woke up knackered this morning but I think it was
2018 Grateful 16
Well, that was the longest five-day period I’ve put in since I did my leaving cert all those years ago. The days seemed to drag
2018 Grateful 17 | Quince
Google, there’s such a thing as too much information. I had thought I spent hours yesterday processing my quince harvest, making jelly and butter, only
2018 Grateful 18
People ask me why I blog. No one reads anything any more, they say. It’s all pictures. So I went on Pinterest in an effort
2018 Grateful 19
I wasn’t all that pushed about seeing the Pope, even though both of us were in Dublin the same weekend. I’d run into him while
2018 Grateful 20 | Pears
I’ve always thought the word ‘bounty’ to be a peculiarly Protestant word. Not specifically Luthern, or Methodist, or Church of England, just generally Protestant. I
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