There is beauty to be found if we just take the time to look for it. That’s one of the key lessons I’ve learnt from my Dad. Not because he verbalised it, but because he lived it out. He is a very patient guy and that patience wasn’t about inactivity, it was very much about […]
Read More Pursuing Beauty: The Married Life 16 Years OnJune is not a month of the Spring. In related information, day follows night. The reason, however, for mentioning the June thing is that this month beginning brings in the most challenging season of the year to me. Some people love the summer. Good for them. The summer, historically to me, has threatened to be […]
Read More No Room for a Vacuum: A Dryden UpdateTrends. Something happens somewhere, it proves to be popular, people latch onto it and it captures the imagination for a season. It might be something you eat or something you wear. It could be a catchphrase or a way of looking at the world. Whatever it is, it makes its mark on the culture at […]
Read More Go With The FlowHello Mum. How are you? I’m doing alright. Authrine is doing really well. The girls are coming along great as well. The two older girls did something significant recently that really was a step towards them taking responsibility for their lives. It was incredible to see, Mum and in a way it made me think […]
Read More MumSummer had already peaked and its decline was evident. Hints of Autumn lurked without ever intruding the last stand of the sunny days. I am not the world’s greatest fan of the summer sun and in those times where it is not as prevalent as it has been, I take hope of the impending season. […]
Read More Zoë Dryden: Remembering New LifeBlink and you miss it. That’s something apply to years of my life to be fair. It’s particularly applicable, however, to the month of February. For me this makes it all the more important to make a note of what life is like in the smallest month of the year. First of all, I’m really […]
Read More March Movements Without Forgetting February: A Dryden UpdateThis blog is not automated by robots. As yet I don’t think there is available technology to produce entries automatically and post them. From that you can be sage that I am still populating this blog with the updates its received. I’ve read a little bit here and there about how blogging is dead. I […]
Read More Change and Blogging: A Dryden UpdateMy beautiful firstborn daughter recently celebrated her birthday. She has two younger siblings, they are also beautiful. The three of them together bring joy to my soul by just being themselves. Yet someone had to be first and so it is that this daughter is my firstborn daughter. I remember the time of her birth […]
Read More Day by Day: But Not In That Way?Have you been checking the time? When we were being taught how to tell the time way back at school we had the analogue clock and the digital clock. That digital clock was a twelve-hour clock. It was a little later on that I got into the twenty-four hour clock. I gotta say, I like […]
Read More A Quarter To – A Dryden UpdateYou ever planned to do something and after a while forget that you had planned to do it? Nah, I’m sure you haven’t. You come across as one of those decent types who tend to stay committed to everything you’ve ever planned. (Wink) As for me, though, I need to be reminded about some of […]
Read More Half Past – A Dryden Update
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