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Realisations and revelations: “Come to me all who are burdened and heavy laden … I will give you rest. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light!” (Jesus of Nazareth).

  Realisations and revelations:  “Come to me all who are burdened and heavy laden … I will give you rest. For my yoke is easy  and my burden is light!” (Jesus of Nazareth).   Can a soul be burdened? Can a heart heal on the overlap between joyous remembering and breaking in sorrow: where joy is not our sorrow unmasked (Gibran), but is crushed in a rising tempest of pain?   Watchers see our journey of introspection and reflection … of quietly re-forming priorities and perceptions …  and offer their inaccurate … and disconnected assumptions … out of their own bewilderment at a journey and experiences that fit no design or plan.   They seek to name what does not exist …  for grieving is a journey of ‘now you see it, now you don’t!’ …  a journey which only emerges …  like shadows in winters’ fog-like mists …  and pieces for a complex jigsaw … for which there is no image or picture to guide its building.   Do not dare to tell us what...

Realisations and revelations - 11.30 … 2 hours to go! – 19th September 2020

  Realisations and revelations - 11.30 … 2 hours to go! – 19 th  September 2020   Unsought and unbidden it just popped into my head. 11.30 … 2 hours to go!   What?   I check …  yes, it is 11.30 am on September 19 th  … but … what is this 2 hours about? 11.30 + 2hours … 1.30pm …                   Another random, unsought thought … September 19 th  … 2018! “That is when Ciddy came home from her catch-up with Wendy!” And additional thoughts gently and singly emerge into consciousness …                    “Then 2 hours, and another 2 hours, and another 2 hours …”  What the …???   Still no clarity or connectedness,  still no unveiling of memories and (or) heart triggers.   Then, like the layers of an onion, 11.30 + 2 hours = 1.30 + 2 hours = 3.30 …  ...