Back to the cafe today… had a hot chocolate and a lovely vanilla cupcake with lavender icing..
here’s the cake….
here’s the icing (pretty lavender sugar on top!)
I like to take photos of things that catch my eye… as I was sitting, eating, i noticed that the mirror on the opposite wall caught the reflection of part of the painting on the wall above me – it looked like the woman in the painting was peeking round the frame at us 😀
She reminds me of someone….
One of my favourite songs – the video is beautiful, too….
This seems a bit quiet 😦 and there’s about two minutes of empty space at the end…. but – enjoy!
Went to my second philosophy cafe tonight… Decor art -decoration or art?
Interesting and thought provoking….
The next one is in April – anyone interested? 😀
http://artalkphilosophycafe.blogspot.com/
Very little grows on jagged rock.
Be ground, be crumbled.
So wild flowers will come up where you are.
You’ve been stony for too many years.
Try something different.
Surrender.
Rumi
Yesterday’s musing about the boys doing their work before we get up has been answered… while the work is being “done”, the standard could be better, and would benefit from me being there to oversee… at least for the time being! One small(ish) boy will not be too happy with that… 😀
On the other hand, I bought him an old, second hand dictionary today – endless fun! (cue rolled eyes from long-suffering son.. 😉 ) I’ve found that the new dictionaries don’t include phonetics or etymology – both needed this year for biggest boy’s studies.
Littlest bean had a long, tiring and upsetting tantrum today…. all played out on Ellenborough Street, with concerned (or possibly just plain annoyed) citizens looking on. We’d just had a lovely time at the cafe… and then he took exception to something… ran off outside. We left him for a bit, but I became concerned with traffic outside… went out to get him…. and then spent the next unknown number of minutes (but felt like hours) trying to hold a squirming, kicking, yelling littlest boy. Thankfully he doesn’t do that much anymore… but today was, well, today 😀 . All turned out well in the end (the end being dinner time) but he and I were both exhausted by then.
Time was, I would have been horribly embarrassed knowing everyone was watching today… but, today at least, that didn’t matter…. what was most important today was one small boy’s spirit, and the opportunity to teach and strengthen that little spirit, to look at consequences and behaviour… to take the opportunity to build a Godly heart. That might not seem to make much sense… I can’t find the words to explain more fully… but I believe that was happening today….
has been a library day….
Got the school work done early, then walked down to the library. We haven’t walked a lot lately, so we all felt it… had a very grumpy smallest boy this afternoon. On the way we found a (largeish) handful of macadamia nuts that had fallen from a tree onto the footpath….
The boys did a bit of extra work once we got to the library (newspaper headlines for biggest boy, how to use the computer to find books for littlest boy) I got stacks more books to look through… both massive crafty/arty tomes and racy little mystery books (in size, if not in content!)
It is now evening – the boys are in bed, and the dishes are staring reproachfully at me from the kitchen. I shall ignore them, but not for long…..
Just a look at a site pointed out to me by a friend… not Christian (or Jewish) based, but an interesting look at the importance placed on a “Sabbath rest” by a range of people.
http://www.sabbathmanifesto.org/
… and here’s a Jewish view of the manifesto…
Just back from my first ARTTalk Philosophy Cafe, at Bon Laneway Cafe…. we were outside in the laneway, squashed in.. lots more people than I’d thought there would be…
Topic was Street Art vs Graffiti, and led to lots of interesting discussion. Still thinking….
Looking forward to next month’s cafe…
Thought I’d try this theme for a bit, till I figure out how to personalise things….
wanting to do something with this year – more creating, more simplifying…
wanting to get more “green” – a few things to look at this year –
sprouting
cloth pads
home made bras
home made vegie bags
bulk cooking/freezing
vegie garden/fruit
reusage of all sorts
the list will probably go on….. 😀
a bit of creativity, a bit of eco consciousness, a bit of inspiration.... hopefully not a lot of pompousness and blathering :D
i'm not entirely sure what's going on here... let's travel along and see...
