Tag: #LENT2026

  • Margaret’s Magic

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    What is your middle name? Does it carry any special meaning/significance? We were big on middle names in my family. Many used their middle name as their first name. I was not too hot on my middle name. It seemed so boring and so old fashioned. I guess when I knew it was my grandma’s… Read more

  • The Watch, the Miraculous Medal and the Lipstick

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    What are three objects You couldn’t live without? The watch, about £20 sterling, is a much favoured daily object.  I’ve had the garmins, the apps.  Done my year on year comparisons.  Sweated on the days I forgot my watch or the battery went and how that would affect ‘results’.  This watch by Hearkent is more… Read more

  • Learning to hear birdsong

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    What experiences in life helped you grow the most? “St David of Wales famously reminded us ‘Do the little things’”  It was a summer of contrasts, fearful imaginings and new beginnings. I met a man.  A real man.  My tumultuous and never should have happened marriage was dispersing into an empty painful divorce. We couldn’t… Read more

  • My brother’s suicide

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    Describe a phase in life that was difficult to say goodbye to. Perhaps because there is no goodbye it was the hardest.  Worse still anyone who has experienced this tragedy knows you piece together your own goodbye with what ifs, regrets, disbelief. And for a long time all this shapes the narrative backwards.  You doubt… Read more

  • Ashes to Ashes

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    ASHES to ASHES I have grown to like the humbling of ashes on my forehead. The chance to speak up in silence the charcoal cross carved on my forehead as my blonde hair caresses. And to look around to see who else is saying today ‘ I am God’s child’ And that is the most… Read more

  • Forgiveness the best gift

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    Forgiveness unforseen you gave me without a ‘But’ without a price tag without a regular reminder bitter and grudged. ‘It might take me a while to trust’ you said but it didn’t because you knew yourself and you knew me and you wanted our love more than ego. Ego is lonely and unforgiveness an open… Read more