Pictured are the first ripe blueberries from our little garden that’s mostly grown in pots. From the first delicate, white blossoms it takes a long time for the fruit to form, and then another long time for them to change colour from green to purple. It can be pretty frustrating to keep looking at the…
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Weekend reading
October always starts with a long weekend here, and with our city still in strict lockdown that meant opportunities for long walks, baking, reading and watching TV. I also took our eldest for another little driving lesson and that’s coming along nicely. And I read my review copy of Michael D. O’Brien’s latest novel, The…
Warming up
It’s been feeling definitely spring-like for a few weeks now. We even had a 30-degree day last week, an early blast of summer that dropped with an afternoon southerly leaving a cool, rainy trail of days since. An unplanned window of a couple of hours opened up yesterday afternoon and made my husband and our…
The wound that heals
For the past couple of years, I’ve belonged to a small faith conversation group that runs from around May to August. It focuses on the writings of Discalced Carmelite saints St John of the Cross, St Teresa of Avila and St Therese of Lisieux along with other traditional and contemporary spiritual writers. Due to social…
Marilyn Rodrigues 