An everyday staple that goes back to the beginning of humanity. What do YOU know about it?
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St Bridgid’s Day
A dawn celebration gives startling results.
Nothing like a cold……
Colds around the world — a multitude of solutions!
Today
the gift of song to a beloved father, and a comforting recipe
A Thousand Eyes
a sad but encouraging story followed by a humdinger of a vegetarian main course.
Essence of Mother
Have you ever tried to capture the essence of someone you know well, in a single story?
TEA!
Shame and stupidity TEA, three little letters, that, when interspersed with others, can bring comfort, solace, and healing, but left together on their own they detonate into an explosion of grief, shame, humiliation, regret, and stupidity. I have lived, grown up, worked, or visited in 22 different countries of the world. For all of them,… Continue reading TEA!
I wish we still had the stocks
You could tell she was miserable. Her sullen angry face stared straight ahead from the audience’s front row, her lips clenched tightly together. You’d think we were torturing her – we probably were. This concert took place in a bygone era when folk were allowed to come together. It was a simple audience participation… Continue reading I wish we still had the stocks
Nowruz!
Nowruz! The Amazing Zoroastrians Oh dear. We missed it –Persian New Year. Why, you ask, is that important to our culture here whose immediate worry is how to find hand gel, toilet paper, and tinned tomatoes in empty-shelved grocery shops, where every bit of community comfort is denied to us because we can’t hug? WELL,… Continue reading Nowruz!
Greeting Cards
Receiving “Faithful friends that are dear to us, gather near to us once more…” goes the cheesy Christmas song we crooned last night at the winter sing-along. I love receiving cards and letters and news and emails, and telephone calls. I love getting them all. I put cards up all over the house, sorted… Continue reading Greeting Cards
food that builds community 