This is a beautiful piece of writing and such important thoughts.
Another photo from our trip –
Mount St Helens
Relief today but now 6 weeks of uncertainty…….
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Peace, Shadows, and A Thimble
The sun threw a shadow of the tea-pots on our shelf out through the window!
Tea-pots
My Mum collected thimbles and I have them, nearly 500 of them! They are all catalogued and I have been busy with them today discovering where Mum found them, Truro Flea Market or Falmouth Arcade or multiple other places or who gave them to her. This tiny little one is cute. It is less than1″ tall.
No 467
St Ives, Pages of the Sea and Peace
We’ve been in St Ives today for the Pages of the Sea event initiated by Danny Boyle to commemorate 100 years since the Armistice was signed and WW1 came to an end. It was one of thirty such events on beaches around Britain today. My choir was singing. Several of us wore white poppies which symbolise two important things. The white poppy is to remember ALL the dead, those of all nationalities caught up in the horror of war as soldiers or civilians and to show our commitment to working for Peace.
St Ives when we arrived
Flowers left at low tide to be taken as the tide came in
The sand art at Porthmeor, courtesy of WildWorks. Captain Edward ‘Teddy’ Hain (15 August 1887 – 11 November 1915)
Waiting for the tide to wash away the image of the soldier
Being washed away by the incoming tide
One of the soldiers being remembered today and, on the back, a beautiful and very moving poem written for today by Carol Ann Duffy
St Ives as we were leaving
Other beaches in Cornwall had sand drawings of soldiers too.
Lieutenant Richard Charles Graves-Sawle. On Porthcurno Beach
On Perranporth Beach. Photo by Naomi Smith
Peace, Blue Sky and Cathedral Spires
The sun coming through the window as I arrived in the kitchen this morning cast a shadow of Peace on the blind.
Shadow of PEACE
There has been a glorious blue sky all day.
Bunting in the breeze
Truro Cathedral is always beautiful , particularly so in the Spring sunshine.
Truro Cathedral
Some architectural detail below:
Turrets and a chimney
Detail
Two spires
Peace, Plate and Peppers
In these troubled times, Lao Tzu’s words, written two and a half thousand years ago, can still point the way for us all:
If there is to be peace in the world,
There must be peace in the nations.
If there is to be peace in the nations,
There must be peace in the cities.
If there is to be peace in the cities,
There must be peace between neighbours.
If there is to be peace between neighbours,
There must be peace in the home.
If there is to be peace in the home,
There must be peace in the heart.
We have a beautiful plate that we bought in Atlanta on our first visit to America about 40 years ago. It shows Stone Mountain, Georgia and we love it. It takes a central position on our kitchen dresser. The potter is named on the back as Chappelle and, looking them up (as you do!) I discover that they are still around! If you look at their gallery, you will see a similarity with our plate so I think, and hope, that I have found the right people. http://chappellegallery.com/pottery/
Stone Mountain plate
I have stuffed two peppers with mushrooms, garlic, sun-dried tomatoes, chopped Brazil nuts, pretzel crumbs and Halloumi cubes for our supper tonight. It looks good so I hope it tastes as good as it looks!
Stuffed Peppers
