:: remembering Easter a year ago, spent atop Doi Suthep, a magnificently gold temple outside of Chiang Mai, Thailand, and the fun and beauty we found in clanging the long row of prayer bells.
:: remembering also the Easters of our first married years, spent at a church in Pittsburgh, and particularly the tradition of bringing a bell to the service. These bells were muffled and quiet until after the Easter proclamation, and then were rung with abandon during the first hymn. Especially after the long vigil service, with its readings and darkness and quiet, the wild ringing was such a visceral way to experience Easter, exploding the sanctuary with joy.
:: refraining from stopping my boy from clanging the Easter cookie cutters I hung from the mantel, remembering that he, too, needs tangible ways to express joy and excitement.
:: hoping that our friends do indeed make it onto their flight from South Africa to visit us this week.
:: yearning occasionally for the lightness of our Hong Kong life, a lightness that didn't come from HK as much as from our transience, and a lightness that left more room and time in our lives for experiences, since there was so much less stuff.
:: thankful for the ways our life here is stabilizing and deepening: the little projects around the house, the growth of friendships, the occasional sighting of someone we know around town.
:: dreaming of, and planning for, a garden this summer! full of food to can and otherwise put away for next winter: tomatoes, cabbage, potatoes, carrots, onions, garlic. And a bean tent for fun. And chickens!
:: delighting in the sunshine of this Easter weekend, even if the temperatures didn't quite match the sunshine, and the colors surrounding me everywhere I look.
:: looking forward to leftover grilled lamb sandwiches for lunch.
:: listening to my boy sing sweet, made up lullabies to a new stuffed bunny.
:: wishing a happy Easter Monday to you all!
1 comment:
Wondrous images -- both photgraphically and verbally!! Thanks.
Your words---
yearning occasionally for the lightness of our Hong Kong life, a lightness that didn't come from HK as much as from our transience, and a lightness that left more room and time in our lives for experiences, since there was so much less stuff.
---bring back those feelings of our two stays in London with the Dartmouth foreign studies program. One might not want that life for years on end, but oh...it was special, freeing, inspiring. . . while it lasted. Yet, then, it was time to come back and be a part of the active life of a community.
Your photos are so heart warming!
Easter blessings for each day.
Love, Liese
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