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‘Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.’
Mother Teresa
When I was a girl on Mothers’ Day we would pile into our rusty old white triumph car with the black, cat scratched, soft top and drive to the forest to see my grandmother. Three generations gathering to say I love you and eat buttery crumpets giving gifts of books and cat statues and filling grannies room with bunches of daffodils from the Isle of Scilly. My grandmother and my mother are now passed and my daughter is on the other side of the world so the below image today is for them but especially my mum, who was a bright whirling sunflower until her last goodbye.
Bring me the sunflower
Bring me then the plant that points
to those bright Lucidites swirling up from the earth.
And life itself exhaling that central breath!
Bring me the sunflower
crazed with the love
of light.
Written by Eugenio Montale
More of the kids and beautiful Banteay Srei over at www.thecambodianchapter.wordpress.com
‘Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.’
Rabindranath Tagore
“Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.”
Goethe
That this…
Will become this…
Is just a little bit magical isn’t it…
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My travel blog is the most current place to see what I am working on, where I have been and very soon (she says teasingly) I will tell you just where Green By Name is heading next. So come on over, it’s about to get very, very exciting!!
Sorry dear blog, it’s been too long, I got lost in the fields of the ‘shire there a while, come see…
Blissfields 2011
A butterfly loving friend arrived at my door one night with a cocoon. It started vibrating not long after, by the time I settled into my bed a butterfly had been born. Early sunrise woke us both and I took this before opening the window…
I am molten,
glowing,
deep sun resides in me.
Chloroform like, my scent
infuses the air.
TG
