Letter to Monty - whetting the appetite for life
Dear Monty,
Three musings (or unedited drivel)
26/11/12 How can the mechanical sound of a car engine in the distance bring a sense of comfort ? Yet that sound did just that a few moments ago. Perhaps it unlocks a memory from the past, a good memory of belonging and safety within a loving family. Perhaps it is linked to my childhood spent on another hill in another house. The little end of terrace house on the hill above the sea in Swansea with its view over to the docks and the steelworks in one direction, and the curve of Swansea Bay to the Mumbles in the other.
Forgive the old pastel drawings, they serve to remind me of my roots.
There is a positive thing about growing older that gets lost - 'older and wiser' is the saying. Maybe it isn't wisdom but a distillation of experience and knowledge. The small things take on greater significance, like memories evoked by sounds. Life becomes enhanced by the brevity of it - becomes more beautiful.
28/11/12 I have been taken by your beautiful prose on the silver flood at Longmeadow. You captured in words the beauty of something centuries old - the rhythm of the living earth.
Your house is presumably spared, so the flood is a spectacle and not a disaster. Ancient houses built on flood plains can probably take a flood in their stride, unlike our modern homes. We build against nature at our peril.
A full moon casts an ellipse of silver cloud behind the firs above the mountain.
1/12/12 We move toward the middle of Winter - frost nips and rain crackles on the frozen ground.
Christ came not at Christmas - so many myths mixed with truth.
' There is no faithfulness, no love, no acknowledgement of God in the land......... Because of this the land mourns and all who live in it waste away; the beasts of the field and the birds of the air and the fish of the sea are dying....
But let no man bring a charge, let no man accuse another ....... my people are destroyed from lack of knowledge'.
I think this knowledge can be seen in the pulse of the earth.
Paul.
Three musings (or unedited drivel)
26/11/12 How can the mechanical sound of a car engine in the distance bring a sense of comfort ? Yet that sound did just that a few moments ago. Perhaps it unlocks a memory from the past, a good memory of belonging and safety within a loving family. Perhaps it is linked to my childhood spent on another hill in another house. The little end of terrace house on the hill above the sea in Swansea with its view over to the docks and the steelworks in one direction, and the curve of Swansea Bay to the Mumbles in the other.
Forgive the old pastel drawings, they serve to remind me of my roots.
There is a positive thing about growing older that gets lost - 'older and wiser' is the saying. Maybe it isn't wisdom but a distillation of experience and knowledge. The small things take on greater significance, like memories evoked by sounds. Life becomes enhanced by the brevity of it - becomes more beautiful.
28/11/12 I have been taken by your beautiful prose on the silver flood at Longmeadow. You captured in words the beauty of something centuries old - the rhythm of the living earth.
Your house is presumably spared, so the flood is a spectacle and not a disaster. Ancient houses built on flood plains can probably take a flood in their stride, unlike our modern homes. We build against nature at our peril.
A full moon casts an ellipse of silver cloud behind the firs above the mountain.
1/12/12 We move toward the middle of Winter - frost nips and rain crackles on the frozen ground.
Christ came not at Christmas - so many myths mixed with truth.
' There is no faithfulness, no love, no acknowledgement of God in the land......... Because of this the land mourns and all who live in it waste away; the beasts of the field and the birds of the air and the fish of the sea are dying....
But let no man bring a charge, let no man accuse another ....... my people are destroyed from lack of knowledge'.
I think this knowledge can be seen in the pulse of the earth.
Paul.
Paul, I think you're right. The world ticks on to a rhythm we've forgotten.
ReplyDeleteI love your pastels, by the way.
There is, of course, acknowledgement of God in the land...it's just that it's quiet, and seems to go unheard in all the noise.
Yes !
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