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Syncopation, Baby Naming and ‘Making it up”

1 A brilliant singing session where we had to work really hard with some tricky notes and syncopation and then a lovely coffee session with friends in the cafe downstairs.

2 Spent a happy hour with L, Choir-baby T’s Mum, planning his Humanist Baby Naming. He slept throughout and woke just as we finished.

Choir-baby T

3 The following poem by John Siddique, a particular favourite of mine which I give to parents of new babies, is probably going to be included.

MAKING IT UP

Fold yourself the mind you want.

Make a paper hat

and wear it on your head. Hold it tight

when the wind blows.

Paint yourself the heart you desire. Pin it

on your jumper, be proud of your colours.

Pin it fast and don’t mind the rain.

Write yourself the love you love. Hold that

paper tight in your hand. Unfold it often,

read your plan aloud in sun and in snow.

Walk yourself the world you want. Each step

is breath. It’s your life. Stamp big-footed.

Walk soft. Dance your way in all the weathers.

John Siddique

NB I posted this yesterday, 27th September, and had some likes and comments but it has since disappeared and shows now only as a draft with no tags/ categories so I’m publishing it again. Just found that it has already been published twice on my Facebook page – all very odd!

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on September 27, 2012 in Baby Naming, Humanist ceremony, literature, music, poetry, postaday2012, singing, Uncategorized, Words

Tags: Baby Naming, Choir-baby, John Siddique, Making it up, Postaday, postaday2012, re-post, syncopation

Curiosity, A Stream and A Peacock

06 Aug

1 Curiosity landed on Mars! Isn’t that just a lovely thing to hear? I love that name!

2 I parked near a stream this morning when I went to meet my Baby Naming family. It was so lovely. The sound of the water was beautiful, the reeds lovely and the whole experience very peaceful and I loved it. I just wish I could give you the sound as well as a photo.

The stream in St Erth

3 Driving home from a fabulous choir session tonight (where my part was changed to my initial consternation but in fact it is a beautiful part that suits my voice even better! Thank you Claire and I’m sorry I was grumpy!) I came across this peacock in a garden! I stopped to take a picture but was somewhat hurried so unfortunately it’s a bit blurred but how often does that happen?!

Peacock in someone’s drive!

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on August 6, 2012 in Baby Naming, birds, Humanist ceremony, music, nature, senses, singing

Tags: Baby Naming, Baby Naming Ceremony, Claire Ingleheart, Curiosity, Mars, Postaday, postaday2012, sound of the water, St Erth

Smells of Senegal, London Underground and Khalil Gibran on Children

20 Apr

1 Such a lovely thing – when I use my hairdryer, it blows out the beautiful incensey smell that was in our apartment in Pikine in Senegal bringing back all those lovely memories.

2 We’ve just bought a new shower curtain with the Tube map on it! Click on it to make it big enough to read.

London Underground Map on our new shower curtain

3 I’ve just come back from the run-through of tomorrow’s Baby Naming Ceremony, firstly a beautiful drive down to Potager Garden though lanes lined by ancient trees and then the words of the Ceremony which contain the following from Kahlil Gibran, words that Mr S and I love and the philosophy which we tried to keep in mind while bringing up our own four children:

“Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

You may strive to be like them,
but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

You are the bows from which your children
as living arrows are sent forth.”

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on April 20, 2012 in books, home, poetry, Senegal, senses, travel

Tags: Baby Naming, Ceremony, children, incense, Kahlil Gibran, London Underground, philosophy, Pikine, Potager Garden, Senegal, shower curtain, Tube

Network Cornwall, Hyacinths and Marmite ‘n’ Shallot Scones

24 Jan

1 I was thinking this morning about all the happy things I have found, thanks to Network Cornwall. Using the network, I have:

found my kind and lovely piano teacher, Glynnis, who has been patiently teaching me for almost a year
found our super painter, Veronika, who is on her second job for us
been booked for a Baby Naming
found our brilliant carpenter Jo, who has made us some unique and lovely shelving
booked myself onto a photography class with Helen
started French conversation this afternoon with Jackie
bought and sold things
sought and given advice
given stuff away
made new friends
and got some followers for my Blog! Thank you all!

2 The hyacinths planted before Christmas are in bloom and sending their scent everywhere, even over the top of the paint smell!

Hyacinths

3 I made a batch of Dan Lepard’s Marmite and Red Onion Scones this morning ( had no red onions so used two of our home grown shallots) Delicious buttered and warm straight out of the oven.