August 19, 2020
Gleanings
- It has taken me more than 40 years, but the singular achievement of my life may be that if I am attacked by a serial killer on a deserted Lovers Lane, I almost certainly will have had dessert.
- But the problem with a system in which crumbling infrastructure is held up by good tape and great staff is that it has no room to give. It’s already at breaking point.
- last year’s monarch recovery is a beautiful example of what people will do with clear instructions and when motivated by something they love.
- My faith is essential, it is fundamental to my equanimity and COVID-19 has changed nothing in that regard.
- The chapter ‘The History of Molecatching’ might be my favourite except that all the others are my favourite too.
- We have many of her tablecloths, each more beautiful than the last, and I understand something of how she tried to keep the lines of family communication open between England and Canada in the days before easy telephone calls and emails.
- This is not a fancy thing, and I am not trying to convince you that it is novel.
- every now and then a freight or a passenger train goes by on the tracks above the community garden. And it is good.
- I trust that when I make choices that are authentic to me, only good things will result.
- I’m extremely reluctant to give anyone advice about anything of late, but I can tell you a few things that are working for me, what’s getting me through these uncertain days.
- This blog is like a corkboard on which to post thoughts, observations, whatever is front-of-mind right now. It acts as a public journal, an I WAS HERE scrawl on the wall.
- Also, I needed an excuse to share this recipe for compost muffins, so named because you can toss just about anything into them
- So I don’t announce to strangers, “yes, my work is excellent, wouldn’t you agree?” but I don’t say, “it’s worthless, burn it,” though the culture sort of urges me to do the latter and my heart a little of both, depending on the day.
- Suddenly, wooden benches and window sills, the Chestnut Tree in my neighbour’s garden, all looked different. Everything came into focus. “
- Once you invert it out of the baking pan, you end up with the flan on top and the cake underneath. I’ve read that this is because the cake, as it rises in the oven, becomes lighter than the flan layer, so the flan sinks and I, a non-scientist, based on little more than liking the sound of it, have concluded that it makes total sense.
- One reason I relished Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey so much is that the novel could easily have been a disaster.
- How to revise your novel: part 1
SO much good stuff to read here and wow, that dress and the flowers! Perfect.
So glad you liked it!
I haven’t yet visited every one but had to stop in again to also comment on this dynamite dress and flowers — a perfect pairing.