NOSTALGIA

I began the day with cutting the grass and I started thinking how the smell of fresh cut grass reminds me of cutting the lawn as a child so many years ago.  Having first Mary visit and now Oliver brings back many memories too.  I had forgotten until Sandra mentioned it how we use to go walking with the children in the buggies.

Oliver arrived just before I was going visiting. It was interesting that Jim started talking about some of his memories of driving to Mexico and ending up in jail for a few days.  He wishes his children knew him better as the person he really is; not this angry, helpless dying lonely old man.  These are his very words.  I asked if I could pray for him and he got annoyed and said he did not believe in God.  I told him that I respected what he has chosen to believe.   Inside I felt very sad.  He is a prisoner of his own negative emotions. 

After a cheerful visit with Freda I returned home.  The trouble is she never wants me to leave.

Dad and Oliver were having a good chat happy that the battery had been removed from the bike and will be recharged and put it to-morrow.  We went to the Green Lettuce and then Oliver went to visit Johnathon.

Karen Armstrong explains some of the history and wisdom of the past and says; "Properly understood the rites were a spiritual education that enabled people to transcend their own limitations of selfishness.  Confucius reinterpreted this: when people are treated with reverence, they become conscious of their own sacred worth.  Then they  could express respect and dignity to others with compassion.

To-morrow I will go to the church early, so I am writing this now, to help put things out for the big sale.  Our first sales at the church were clothing sales and we hung up rakes and rakes of clothes. I remember how people would be lined up at the door waiting to get in.  There were not stores like Value Village back in those days.

This year we are having a smaller sale without any big furniture items.  I  do not know if there will be garden plants but there will be books.  It is a fun time but also tiring.

The heavy rain has stopped, the birds are singing and I am hungry for breakfast and will have a short walk.