Category Archives: Life on the journey
Because I need to write.
This silence is too loud. I wander the house, everything looks different with a baby in my arms, attached to me by this sling. I gaze at all the things that made up life before I came into this land, … Continue reading
Some schmaltzy stuff (Updated)
Well, because sometimes you need some songs that help with the coming to terms with having a child… Here are some good ones that circle around my head right now. Best of all this by the Barenaked Ladies- ‘When you … Continue reading
Welcoming Ethan to the world…
About 3 and a half years ago my excellent nephew Matthew was born, I was living with husbandface at the time but in our former guise as housemates rather than husband and wife. Matthew was born around 2 in the … Continue reading
What do we do with you?
What do we do with you? You whose ways are not our ways. You who set the earth in place and yet skip like the young over mountains. What do we do with you who will not be set into … Continue reading
Contentment revisited…
It was a new thought that dropped in to my consciousness this morning, from this blog post. It’s the radical realisation that contentment isn’t found in being thankful for our circumstances but in someone who reaches beyond our circumstances. I’m … Continue reading
The Long Walk Home 