Today Stephen is saying goodbye to his Dad, his father died suddenly 10 days ago leaving his loving family in shock. There was no warning, his light went out and he was gone. There are no words, no pithy phrases that can adequately sum up the loss of a loved one. It’s impossible to quantify a life, to sum up a person; we try, but we know that it really can’t be done. Not really. How do you describe love?…
The days are getting longer in our part of the world, minutes are turning into extra hours each day. This is giving us more time each day, a feeling of openness and expansion that we are more than ready for. But really, when you get right down to it, what we have more time to do is look at snow. Lots of snow. Acres of it, literally. We’ve had more snow in the last couple of weeks than in the…
Well here I am in February and realising I haven’t written anything here since November, very odd. A combination of blog hosting problems, winter and my laptop being out of commission has made writing tricky. But now, I have returned. So what’s up? Here it’s snowing. It’s been snowing for a while and will probably continue to snow for a bit longer; it’s winter after all and we know that we have a few weeks ahead of us here in…