The pleasure of your company is requested [here] The honour of your presence, the greatest gift. You are [always] invited to the celebration. Do not regret but rather, Accept with delight the kind invitation of the world. via Daily Prompt: Invitation
Month: January 2017
Exquisite tenderness
via Daily Prompt: Exquisite If you've ever been a patient (and seriously, by now, who hasn't?), you know that the medical community has a language all its own. But the lexicon is not just the -omas, -itises, and -opathies. It also includes the use of some everyday words that remain in use in charmingly old-fashioned ways, reminding … Continue reading Exquisite tenderness
How to knit a grown up
The holidays are over now, for real. Every young adult iteration of Christmas break -from the all-too-brief workaday kind to the endless weeks-on-end college kind - has ended. The “big kids” are gone. They have returned now to their parallel universes: their schools, jobs, and lives in townhouses, apartments, and smaller apartments where they live, … Continue reading How to knit a grown up
The stillness of the stone
“There’s something about the stillness of the stone,” my friend had said, understanding immediately my stammering explanation of why we’d bought the old place. She was just the sort of New Age friend who would say such a thing, so I ought not have been surprised. I was, though, just the same, surprised and pleased that she’d … Continue reading The stillness of the stone
On the occasion of his 80th birthday
Today is my father's 80th birthday. This is inconceivable to me, as it is to many of us who are finding that our fathers' ages have become numbers which sound inappropriately like the last few lessons of our times tables, and generally associated more with the elderly and infirmed than with our lifelong protectors. Wait - we … Continue reading On the occasion of his 80th birthday
Eleventh hour, 2016
There's no getting around it now. I'm completely out of time. I weigh the same as when the year began; I have lost zero pounds. In not-unrelated news, I have also not gone to the gym more often. I have not read more books than the year before, and I have only started to write … Continue reading Eleventh hour, 2016
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