Simply..celebrating....

28/4/2021

Mindful of sorrow, I am nevertheless celebrating. Both the dark and the light are important.

The sparkling light in the image sent by LizN - thnak you so much! - is brilliant. It's by Fanny Brate, and very reminiscent of Carl Larsson but with more light. Wonderfully skillful painting. After all, how do you paint light? Only by painting the shadows.

The book was a gift with a subscription to Country Living magazine decades ago, and it reminds me to make a little effort to celebrate all the small things. As I have often said, it would be churlish not to.

What can you celebrate today?

6 Comments

cathy

29/4/2021 03:44:08 am

so often I find more joy in the small things. big things are nice but smaller things are often a surprise.

Freda

30/4/2021 01:46:40 am

Being open to seeing them is key...

Gwendoline

29/4/2021 05:14:13 am

I agree Cathy. I am working on paying attention to the small pleasures these days. I look on it as a practice to prepare for better times that is also essential to keep me 'ticking over' through difficult times.

Freda

30/4/2021 01:48:16 am

It’s always about finding a balance and sometimes feels like walking a tightrope!

Madeleine Lawrence link

2/5/2021 07:41:29 pm

I am celebrating the birthday of a friend. I have baked an apple and almond cake and the minutes are not going by fast enough - I want to eat it now!

Freda, you are absolutely right that both the dark and the light are important. An old Oscar Wilde quote has just sprung to mind: "we are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars".

The challenges will always keep coming and it is up to us to celebrate the autumn leaves, the spring blossoms, the first fire of the year, and all of the little successes, moments of beauty and friendships we are so lucky to have.

Madeleine

Freda

5/5/2021 12:58:24 am

Thank s for your comments Madeleine and for the link to your blog! I will enjoy exploring this!

Simply..celebrating....

Leave a Reply.

Categories

Author

Archives