Greetings my friends,
We are on the other side of Christmas here and even have finished watching our traditional Sydney to Hobart yacht race which fills our Boxing Day. Having been at the finish line one year when we lived in Hobart, and Miles having seen some of the boats practicing in Sydney Harbour a few weeks ago, we were gung-ho supporters this year. Still a few days to go to get the outcome so we will be watching with interest. And with gladness that we don’t have to be on board, especially with the gale force winds predicted this evening.
We enjoyed watching from our comfy lounge room with our cheese platter and our feet firmly on the floor!
I enjoyed my Advent ritual, writing my Advent A to Z poetry challenge. Some nights the screen got very blurry as I brought my tired self to sit at the desk. But I didn’t need to take any days off and managed to complete the course. I had given myself a double restriction, needing to fulfil the letter and the topic which in hindsight may not have been wise! But I also wanted to do something in the discipline tradition of Advent. And this way I ended up with a batch of poems I can reread and be proud of.
I may need to revisit the topic as my faith grows, as I felt I was still hedging my bets a little in the process. We’ll see what the future brings. But it certainly gave me a structure to hang my meditation on and that was very beneficial. And I learnt things along the way with my research.
We also had many fun family times as they helped me come up with ideas for words to match each of the letters. Much hilarity ensued which was gorgeous.
