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How wonderful it was to gaze into this mandarin tree, laden with the colours of it's fruit.....
it has stood bearing fruit for many many years through waterlogged years & dustbowl years & some beautiful perfect years... just like people really there are many seasons we all have lived through & each one day is different from the next.
As I wrote that I wondered about perhaps how some keep each day so tightly controlled that the predictability is their safeness.... the day begins at the exact time as yesterday & then one's routines begin. Ah now I understand how some get so upset when the daily newspaper is not on it's standard arrival time of 6.43 am precisely. I seem to like to listen in on these complaints in newsagents whereever I am... they are the same melody....
Why I returned to write a second rambling today was I have ordered 2 books from Amazon on women living single lives. You know how when the student is ready & the teacher arrives... in the newsletter filled usually with decor books to tempt me came a whatever thing on living singularly... intrigued I read the blurb.. & then roamed through several books... coming back time & time in the followings days until I did select 2 which are now happily on their way.....
I am interested as others tell their stories... I love that the best in books today... it for me gives inspiration, it often normalises who I am & I love to read what we all think of our own lives as ordinary... I so enjoy being in these lives as I think they do write with honesty
Which is a thing for me.... I kind of understand this some more now as I spoke to a great aunt & she tells wonderful stories as she talks & weaves a beautiful tapestry of life that my genes are linked to ... an ancestor from Ireland was a Quaker & she spoke & possibly lived with the ways of quakers... never a lie to be told has come down through several generations... given one's word is another that I wrestle with... and as I meet more of the links I see the openess to people that comes with one's word is always good & honesty is a virtue to behold & here we are very trusting & open folk... with a private side of course that each respects & comprehends this to be so... small traits passed on.
