The Proverbs Ch 8 Key

One winters day a long time ago, six children and their mum went for a walk like none before.

This walk saw children excitedly crisscrossing road and path, bending over stems and flowers, calling out to one another “look at this one! It’s a spiral!”, “look at this one! It’s an opposite!”, “look at this lily! It’s one and one!”

The conversation just before the walk had been their mother sharing from a book where she’d read that the leaves of every stem either grew opposite one another… or in such a way that a spiral around the stem could be traced from one leaf to the next and the next.

There was no random.

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Open House

Someday I would love to do impromptu ‘open house’ evenings where I just pop up a note saying “tonight I’m making churros (… or chilli… or whatever) come if you can” –  play some music and enjoy whoever turns up. There’s some problems with that of course, like quantities and diets, and a dozen other things but it’s something I love the idea of regardless.

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Countdown!


I recently downloaded a new app on my phone called “Countdown”. It has one function (for me) which is to count the number of days till I turn the big “five – oh!!”

I read a study that claims people have a greater sense of urgency when we think in terms of days, rather than years, and that this can help us focus more consistently when working toward goals.

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