There’s a variety of provision between East Goscote and Leicester City:
The good:
The bad:
and other stuff.
Compare the above with typical Dutch provision, thanks Dave Warnock:
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Author: julesprichards
Anchoring in the shire, with family, friends, coffee and cheese… always looking…
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Multi-faceted…
I recently created a trio of visuals to accompany three poems reflected on at the recent Methodist Conference 2013.
These were also re-produced on handy bookmarks for future reference and reflection.
After the success of these, I was asked by Jo Kay to consider some of her poems and as a result I’ve produced the visual below, tom accompany Jo’s poem Multi-faceted God.
This is Jo’s poem:
MULTI-FACETED GOD
Multi-faceted God, whose every myriad of surfaces
Reflect every tone and hue of colour
In the wonder of creation.
All the colours, shades and varieties
of the promised and longed for rainbow.
Whose face recognises mine in all this riot of colour.
Multi-lingual God, whose multiplicity of ears
Recognise every tone and timbre of tongue
Of all the wonderful nations.
All the rhythms, cadences and songs
Of the people of this Earth.
Whose ear hears my voice through the cacophony of sound.
Multi-purpose God, whose existence for me is my purpose;
Reflects for me the longings and desires
Of all created people.
All the needs, hopes and yearnings
Of believers young and old
Who brings purpose to my life in all its richness and diversity.
Multi-sensory God, whose every sense is finely tuned
Mirroring those we have in the world.
A sense of smell and sense of wonder
All the taste and sight and awe
That we share with the Holy Mystery
The God who senses every person, knows their minds, hearts and voices.
Multi-focused God, whose every facet is focused on me and you
Amazing God who looks on everyone
Looks with every atom of being and existence
On every person in creation
Concentrates on only me and only you and you
And you and you and you
This Holy Mystery who encompasses all and holds us for all time.
©Jo Kay Douai Abbey April 2013
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Wet…
We saw it approaching and though we might beat it home…
…hummm! Alas it caught us up… drenched. Haven’t had as much fun since I was 10!
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Cyprus Squares
Here’s a selection of images from our ten days in the sun…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/58480027@N02/sets/72157634815058566/
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Post-siestal aims…
A siesta: a short sleep taken in the early afternoon, usually because the climate is hot – it’s taken as a break or time-out from the heat of the day. It also relates to a break after a heavy intake of food at a midday main meal.
If you’re like me then your days might often include heavy intakes and the heat of daily doings.
Yes, a change is as good as a rest, but occasionally a true break from our ongoing daily deliberations cannot be bettered!
Thanks to my wife, we were recently lucky enough to make the most of a break away in the sun.
Post-siesta observations:
While away for 10 days ‘time-out’ in our sunny suspension, among many other things, I appreciated the below:
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No digital distractions – twitter, farcebook, email, etc
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No drip-fed music – bbc, or any other more vibrant popcorn, etc
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A remove from habitual routines: imbibing socialmeja frippery, tracking cycle-rides, surfing the net, watching tripe on the box etc
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Refocusing and adjusting perspectives on habitual activities, worldview/s, mindset, social sphere etc.
Yes, all of the above has it’s place, just as popcorn and sherbet might have it’s occasional place on a saturday night. But, for the foreseeable future:
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I aim to prune down who I ‘follow’ on twitter
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I aim to considerably ignore, to the point of not using, the demigod ‘farcebook’
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I aim to not “wake up to” the BBC or other piped stupefery
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I aim to not compulsively track routine cycle rides, and not wear ‘cycle clothing’
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I aim to be more selective of what’s being fed to me via ‘the box’ and boxlike tablets
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I aim to review personal ‘community’
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I aim to remember the sights, sounds, and smells of our 10 day siesta
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Siesta…
Busy, tomorrow, yesterday, must,
Ambition, solution, target, trust,
Importance, whether, should be, later,
rules, expectations, compromise, sin…
Siesta, siesta, siesta, siest…
Sun, scorched sand,
Sea, breezed land,
Cyprus, siesta,
and a perfect simple caesar salad, with relish,
and an ice
cold
beer.
JPR Cyprus 07/2013
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Words…
This month’s “Wordle” – voila…
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…Senzenina…
Half of the choir {Global Harmony} had a delightful evening overlooking Rutland Water on Friday night.
We sang a dozen songs in a splendid garden in Manton, at then culmination of a safari supper.
Here’s just a snippet: 3 Songs from Africa – (it’s a poor recording on a mobile-phone but better than nowt)
Senzenina (starts 1min 22secs in) is a favourite of mine – (with me on the call and the choir doing an elevating job of swelling the melody ) – I love this song.
It featured in the mediocre film ‘The Power of One’, as part of an excellent sound track. The film is an adaption of IMHO a great 1989 novel of the same name by Bryce Courtenay . This book is on my personal top ten of influential novels.
Interestingly the lyrics of this version of Senzenina translate to: What have we done? Our sin is… What have we done?
My sentiments exactly.
and another…
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Three Poems…
I have been asked to produced three visuals to accompany the reading of three poems at the forthcoming Methodist Conference – July 2013.
Considering that listening, watching and doing, are all ways in which we can realise new things, these visuals hopefully provide another dynamic to the text of the poems.
The images will be displayed on large screens and will also be supplied as a handy bookmark for reference and contemplation.
You can see the pics here:
“Love” by George Herbert.
LOVE bade me welcome; yet my soul drew back,
Guilty of dust and sin.
But quick-eyed Love, observing me grow slack
From my first entrance in,
Drew nearer to me…
It’s a long way off but inside it
There are quite different things going on:
Festivals at which the poor man
Is king…
“How everything adores being alive” by Mary Oliver.
What if you were a beetle, and a soft wind
and a certain allowance of time had summoned you out of your wrappings,
and there you were…
click titles for poems
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New handlebars
After two years of riding, slowly realising new perspectives, and challenging my own preconceptions and assumptions, I have made another change to the routine standard.
Two years ago my bike came with a stock straight Specialized handlebars, with a 8° degree back sweep.
They’ve been good, but I occasionally fancied a more relaxed position and over time I’ve considered changing the bars.
My riding style over the last two years, has changed from:
i. Trying to co-exist with traffic, riding a bike with a similar driverly attitude and outlook.
to,
ii. Aiming to being more aware of place and adopting a more contented, mindful way…
There are a lot of alternative styles of handlebars on the market – I wanted something more comfortable that allows me to sit up more. Seeing the 45° sweep of the Jones H Loop Bar on a friend’s bike, I admired the unique classic design, but shivered at the unique classic price tag.
I was looking for something with a similar sweep.
I came across a few makes that had a similar spec, but the basic simple set below at £12.50 (delivered) stood out like an option too cheap not to try!
The XLC City + Trekking handlebar is made of “6061 aluminium”, they state that they have an “cranking of 59°” and a width of 610 mm. Not sure what a cranking means? I guess it could translate to a sweep of 31°.
Whatever… they are great!
They enable a more upright sitting position.
The new position seems to enable a grip and pull on the bars that helps exert more pressure on the pedals, when you need that extra surge.
With new Ergon grips I am really chuffed with the new set up.
Just what I was after.
