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Lifted Spirits, Struggling Swans and Fading Beauty

1 For a number of reasons, I was late to singing this morning and as soon as I approached the room and could hear the gorgeous harmonies of “Lo, the Eastern Sages Rise”, one of our glorious carols, my spirits were lifted. Then I joined in and of course, my spirits soared even more along with the music! Everyone should sing! I know some of my readers will say, “But I can’t!” Bear in mind this Zimbabwean proverb – ‘If you can walk, you can dance and if you can talk, you can sing.’

2 It has been a wild, wild day and these elegant swans were doing their best in the rough water but barely moving.

Swans on the Penryn River

3 I love the fading beauty of these anemones.

Beginning to fade

The veins in this one have become more prominent and the centres have gone blue

HAPPY THANKSGIVING to all my American readers!

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on November 22, 2012 in birds, community, environment, flowers, music, nature, Penryn, photography, postaday2012, quotations, senses, singing, Words

Tags: anemones, faded beauty, Happy Thanksgiving, harmonies, Lo the Eastern Sages Rise, Postaday, postaday2012, singing, swans, Zimbabwe, Zimbabwean proverb

Tourists in London 2 – Ephemeral Sand Art, ‘Two Gentlemen of Verona’ in Shona and Guy’s Hospital

09 May

Another day stomping around London, riding the underground and being glad we are just visitors and don’t have to travel like this every day!

1 At low tide there are occasional beaches on the Thames! We spotted this Frenchman creating a sand sculpture which would be gone in a few hours as the tide came back in.

Sand sculpture

2 I love The Globe! The matinee this afternoon, part of Globe to Globe: 37 Plays in 37 Languages at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, was ‘Two Gentlemen of Verona’ in Shona! The production was amazing, so funny and so clever! Just two remarkable actors played all eleven characters including the dog. We laughed so much our faces ached! Incredibly, it’s still only a fiver to be a Groundling as it was when it opened in 1997. We met two beautiful Zimbabwean women who were enjoying hearing a play they knew well in English in their mother tongue.

Skakespeare’s Globe

Waiting in the rain for the second half

: Valerie and Chipo, Zimbabwean women in the audience

3 We walked to the tube via Southwark Cathedral with Guy’s Hospital in the background. Very mixed memories from 30+ years ago when Daniel was in Guy’s for two of his three heart operations – one at 13 days in Leeds followed by two at Guy’s, one at 6 months and one at 30 months. The beautiful thing about this is that he survived against all the odds and is the beautiful young man who just got married in Senegal.