Peace...

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Father, Mother, God,

Thank you for your presence during the hard and mean days.

For then we have you to lean upon.

Thank you for your presence during the bright and sunny days.

For then we can share that which we have with those who have less.

And thank you for your presence during the Holy Days.

For then we are able to celebrate you and our families and our friends

For those who have no voice, we ask you to speak.

For those who feel unworthy, we ask you to pour your love out in waterfalls of tenderness.

For those who live in pain, we ask you to bathe them in the river of your healing.

For those who are lonely, we ask you to keep them company.

For those who are depressed, we ask you to shower upon them the light of hope.

Dear Creator, You, the borderless sea of substance, we ask you to give to all the world that which we need most.....PEACE.

Maya Angelou

(4th April 1928 - 28th May 2014)

Little words of wisdom

Peace...

www.allposters.co.uk

Father, Mother, God,

Thank you for your presence during the hard and mean days.

For then we have you to lean upon.

Thank you for your presence during the bright and sunny days.

For then we can share that which we have with those who have less.

And thank you for your presence during the Holy Days.

For then we are able to celebrate you and our families and our friends

For those who have no voice, we ask you to speak.

For those who feel unworthy, we ask you to pour your love out in waterfalls of tenderness.

For those who live in pain, we ask you to bathe them in the river of your healing.

For those who are lonely, we ask you to keep them company.

For those who are depressed, we ask you to shower upon them the light of hope.

Dear Creator, You, the borderless sea of substance, we ask you to give to all the world that which we need most.....PEACE.

Maya Angelou

(4th April 1928 - 28th May 2014)

Little words of wisdom

Peace...

www.allposters.co.uk

Father, Mother, God,

Thank you for your presence during the hard and mean days.

For then we have you to lean upon.

Thank you for your presence during the bright and sunny days.

For then we can share that which we have with those who have less.

And thank you for your presence during the Holy Days.

For then we are able to celebrate you and our families and our friends

For those who have no voice, we ask you to speak.

For those who feel unworthy, we ask you to pour your love out in waterfalls of tenderness.

For those who live in pain, we ask you to bathe them in the river of your healing.

For those who are lonely, we ask you to keep them company.

For those who are depressed, we ask you to shower upon them the light of hope.

Dear Creator, You, the borderless sea of substance, we ask you to give to all the world that which we need most.....PEACE.

Maya Angelou

(4th April 1928 - 28th May 2014)

Little words of wisdom

Peace...

www.allposters.co.uk

Father, Mother, God,

Thank you for your presence during the hard and mean days.

For then we have you to lean upon.

Thank you for your presence during the bright and sunny days.

For then we can share that which we have with those who have less.

And thank you for your presence during the Holy Days.

For then we are able to celebrate you and our families and our friends

For those who have no voice, we ask you to speak.

For those who feel unworthy, we ask you to pour your love out in waterfalls of tenderness.

For those who live in pain, we ask you to bathe them in the river of your healing.

For those who are lonely, we ask you to keep them company.

For those who are depressed, we ask you to shower upon them the light of hope.

Dear Creator, You, the borderless sea of substance, we ask you to give to all the world that which we need most.....PEACE.

Maya Angelou

(4th April 1928 - 28th May 2014)

Little words of wisdom

Peace...

www.allposters.co.uk

Father, Mother, God,

Thank you for your presence during the hard and mean days.

For then we have you to lean upon.

Thank you for your presence during the bright and sunny days.

For then we can share that which we have with those who have less.

And thank you for your presence during the Holy Days.

For then we are able to celebrate you and our families and our friends

For those who have no voice, we ask you to speak.

For those who feel unworthy, we ask you to pour your love out in waterfalls of tenderness.

For those who live in pain, we ask you to bathe them in the river of your healing.

For those who are lonely, we ask you to keep them company.

For those who are depressed, we ask you to shower upon them the light of hope.

Dear Creator, You, the borderless sea of substance, we ask you to give to all the world that which we need most.....PEACE.

Maya Angelou

(4th April 1928 - 28th May 2014)

Houseplant hoarder?

Did I ever tell you that I have a bit of a thing for houseplants???  All those different shades of green, the variegated varieties, gazillions of leaf shapes ~ and so many put the icing-on-the-cake by flowering too!  What more could anyone want to adorn their home?  I love them!

And yet I confess that I have been a bad houseplant parent over this past year or so.  I did lose some of my lovely potted friends during the move up here; I suspect that they didn't much like the long journey, nor the overnight stop in a cold removals lorry on a January night in Scotland.  It disheartened me somewhat as my little potted family had lived very happily in our old house, but life was very different for them once we moved into St Abbs.  The house was horribly cold and draughty when we first moved in and until we had the new heating system installed and windows replaced, that remained very much the case.  As well, I've got a fairly large collection of plants and for some reason I've found it somewhat difficult to arrange the guys in nice groupings like I had in the old house.  At the moment my family are just dumped here, there and everywhere ~ I don't like it and I'm pretty sure that they don't either.

I did make the effort to repot some of the survivors last summer, which they seemed to appreciate, but I've found it a bit hard to get back into a good routine of love and care for my potted friends.  I realise that this seems to totally contradict my opening paragraph, but I guess you have realised by now that I am a creature with many little foibles!  Thankfully, though, I have rediscovered my houseplant love.  After all, the poor little mites rely on me to keep them alive, healthy and happy.  I also think it's helped that I've joined a couple of houseplant groups on Facebook ~ being in the company of folk who are houseplant fanatics is very inspiring and I'm starting to feel the re-emergence of my own houseplant fanaticism once more!

I'm going to Kirkwall to see Beverly tomorrow and will help her to sort out some of her houseplants, which I've been promising to do for ages.  In the meantime, I've promised my own potted family that over the next few days I'll give each one of them a careful examination.  I'll get my hands back in the soil to repot where necessary, trim, tidy, feed and properly arrange in the most suitable and pleasing locations in St Abbs.....and set aside some time every day to love and enjoy my little potted pets 😍

Little words of wisdom

Doing a whole lot of nothing

I hope you all had a good bank holiday weekend.  Weather wasn't brilliant in this neck of the woods so we didn't do anything outside, in fact we didn't really do anything anywhere LOL  Well, that's not strictly true as Adrian went to a few music events (it was the Orkney Folk Festival weekend).  I mostly sat around reading houseplant books ~ oh yes, folks, houseplants are another little obsession of mine that I will share with you soon 😉  Bet you can't wait!

I think it's good to try finding at least a little time to do a whole-lot-of-nothing, though.  We seem to think that we must fill our days with doing stuff, being productive, but to my mind there's nowt wrong with taking time out occasionally to just be with our own selves and let the world drift on by.  It's not selfish, nor is it anti-social.  Personally I think it's essential just to think of ourselves from time-to-time.  After all, "we" are the only person we will ever be with constantly from conception-to-grave so let's try to make time to keep in touch with ourselves!