Change of occupation, not cessation of occupation, is the best cure for weary brain and quivering nerves, and so it is that a hobby, really enjoyed and regularly cultivated, is a valuable as well as an agreeable possession.

Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna Day 21 – Friday after 3rd Sunday of Lent  To Read: Anna’s other major discovery of that summer grew into a very complex activity, for our house suddenly blossomed with little blue notebooks and slips of paper.  When confronted with something new, Anna would accost the nearest passer-by,… Continue reading Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna – Day 21

More men die from worry than from overwork;  more stuff themselves to death than die of starvation.
(Note: in 19th Century England)

Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna Day 20 – Thursday after 3rd Sunday of Lent  To Read: The first day she held flower seeds in her hand was such a time.  There was no need for words;  her actions and thoughts spoke for themselves.  There she was in front of some wild flowers, kneeling down with… Continue reading Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna – Day 20

The springs of all issues, good and bad, are in the heart and mind.   Give me a perfect body to begin with, and if God’s laws are my laws I shall keep that body perfect to the end of life’s pilgrimage.

Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna Day 19 – Wednesday after 3rd Sunday of Lent  To Read: Suddenly I heard the gruff shout of a park-keeper.  I turned, and there she was, kneeling in front of a flower-bed.  I had forgotten to tell her to Keep off the Grass.  Anna would not have given way to… Continue reading Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna

Every Christian must recognise the fact that the laws of health are the laws of God as much as are the precepts of the Decalogue.

Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna Day 18 – Tuesday after 3rd Sunday of Lent To Read: …From St Paul’s we moved off towards Hyde Park.  After all these months I was beginning to be rather proud of the fact that more and more I was learning to think along with Anna.  I was beginning… Continue reading Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna – Day 18

It is one of the moral uses of the night that it gives the world anew to us every morning, and of sleep that it makes life a daily creation.

Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna Day 17 – Monday after 3rd Sunday of Lent  To Read: Our first excursion outside the East End was ‘up the other end’.  For anyone not familiar with that term it simply means west of Aldgate pump. On this occasion she was dressed in a tartan skirt with… Continue reading Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna – Day 17