Tuesday, November 16, 2010

flowers, ritual


Faithful readers will know how happy I am when I arrive in my old bedroom and find that my mother has left a little vase of fresh flowers for me: posting a picture of these flowers is my way of offering up homage to this ritual.   This evening - having arrived off the daytime flight, which always is the best way to come - the curtains were already drawn, and the flowers thoughtfully removed from the windowsill and placed on the glass top of the desk.  

These blooms act as a very calming antidote to the popular media frenzy over The Royal Wedding That Has Been Announced (can they really be using terms like A Fairy Tale Wedding, after the last time around?).   Actually an equally strong antidote was offered up by the fact that when I came in, my parents were watching an excellent BBC4 program on the late C19th Scottish painters, The Glasgow Boys - which was a sudden blast of BBC documentary at its best.

2 comments:

  1. maria robertsNovember 16, 2010

    I have to smile whenever of I think of you at home in your flower bedecked bedroom. It suggests mom's wellness and joy and nudges more clearly into view the precious gifts of home and family.
    Enjoy...

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  2. hey - thank you, Maria! It always makes me feel so good ... and that I am indeed Home ...

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