Not much news today- still sorting out papers and updating
filing. My move to Dawncliffe more than a year ago followed by ‘the flood’ has
taken its toll. By flood I mean the burst washing machine pipe that caused
water to flow and in a few minutes cover all the floors of my small cottage
with at least 10 cm high of water. When I woke up at 5.00 am to a funny glu-glu
sound, as I got out of bed my little feet were greeted with a bath of cold
water! Yes, I did wake up quite quickly!
The cause? Extremely
high water pressure and a burst rubber pipe. O, well the other problem was that
as I had just moved in, I still had books and papers in boxes on the floor! Can
you imagine the rigmaral? Four days later I still had papers hanging on the
washing line, held by some surprised pegs never imagining being used to dry
paper! Then it was the filing back everything… which as you can imagine was
done in a bit of a rough shoddy manner.
So now I have to go
carefully through papers and re-organize the whole thing.
Anyway the light is
starting to shine at the end of the tunnel and hopefully in a week’s time ‘all
will be well’ and I can concentrate in creating my new book of poems, perhaps including
some stories and some quick stroke style
of drawings.
Wish me luck!
I went yesterday
to the book launch of Sarita Mathur’s ‘Once again love – Reconnecting with the
heart’. I was impressed. She seems genuine and her poetry based on her
experience after an unexpected depression, is inspirational.
I was reminded of a book
by Stephanie Dowrick, ‘The Universal Heart’ which I found helpful to sort out uneasy
relationships.
‘Till next time… Be
good!
One of recent
limelights was to have gone on a visit to the Marianhill Convent with Ruth, my
daughter’s sister-in-law who still calls me ‘mamazina’ an anglicized manner of
sying ‘mamazinha’ which in Portuguese means ‘mommy’. And more… like the inauguration
of the remembrance wall there, for the German community (who started Marian
Hill) …Gaby, my daughter-in-law was the one who had the idea methinks…more
about it later.
