Have you ever tried to say something and however hard you tried to get it right, it came out badly? I wanted to say something and wrote it out very carefully. The subject was a complicated one and had presented difficulties for a lot of people over a long time. My...
The loquat tree flourishes, flowers and fruits without any period of leaflessness. It is never boring, bare or barren. In season and out, the loquat tree is gracious, green and gifted.By contrast, the apricot tree loses leaves, loses lustre and loses life. It droops,...
Every morning a wild Australian magpie flies from across the hills and lands in a tree in the garden. There he waits. He waits until we come out of the house and see him. Then he waits until we throw tiny pieces of bread or food scraps to him.He catches each piece on...
I was in a shop recently and found a postcard replica of a picture that used to hang in my childhood home.I would fix my eyes and mind on it as a child and would live in the world it created. It spoke of an unseen reality.So today when I walked down my wild, erratic...
We built a pathway but just off to one side was the tip of a rock deep in the ground. We could not shift it.It looked as though we could not cover it with dirt to level out the ground without making it higher than the pathway. It seemed doomed to remain an obstacle to...
What size are your choices? Let me share this story with you, please, to demonstrate what I mean by the question.A recent interview on television told how people were treated in concentration camps during the 2nd World War. The stories of suffering and degradation...
I looked around the shop at the Christmas trees. The big ones, beautifully dressed and as expensive as they were beautiful, had the best positions.The cheap ones, without any decorations, were pushed into a far corner by themselves.Customers were filling their...