The early morning dull weather fitted my grey mood. I was mulling over some negative comments (about me) from others that do not know me.
The weather perked up after lunch with a sudden heavy downpour illuminated by the sun through the clouds. When this happens the world suddenly becomes vivid and I enjoyed seeing how [...]
Archive for April, 2020
Filed under Anecdotes, Out & About
He’s Back
18 Comments CherryPie on Apr 29th 2020
Filed under Anecdotes, Out & About
A Walk in the Rain
I set off in light rain for a mid afternoon walk. The refreshing rain had enhanced nature’s vibrant colours. There were few people about giving me the perfect opportunity to find the access point that joins a pathway avoiding the busy areas (with people not respecting social distancing) that I normally walk along to get [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Apr 28th 2020
Filed under Anecdotes, Out & About
A Hat in a Box
After many sunny April days the sun was tired and put its hat in a box to recharge its batteries.
This meant that the ‘Boris’ walkers rather than regular dog walkers and walkers stopped at home giving me a window of opportunity to venture out on a much missed local walk.
The pathways were back to how [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Apr 28th 2020
The more a human being feels himself a self, tries to intensify this self and reach a never-attainable perfection, the more drastically he steps out of the centre of being.
Eugine Herrigel
2 Comments CherryPie on Apr 27th 2020
Filed under Anecdotes, Science & Nature
A Tale of Three Frogs
Today, just after lunch I sat on my garden bench watching and listening to the birds singing there hearts out. I went inside for something and when I came out I noticed a small speckled grey pebble near to the bench. I paused, I didn’t remember seeing it when I was gardening earlier in the [...]
4 Comments CherryPie on Apr 27th 2020
Filed under Faith Foundations, Holidays, York 2020
Crypt Chapel of All Saints
Like a medieval chapel, it is the first chapel in an English cathedral designed as a columbarium, a resting place for the ashes of the dead, whose names are engraved in the stone walls.*
*from the Sheffield Cathedral handbook
6 Comments CherryPie on Apr 21st 2020
Rivers and rocks and trees have always been talking to us, but we’ve forgotten how to listen.
Michael Roads
14 Comments CherryPie on Apr 19th 2020
