here are others who lay the foundations of family life so narrow, straight, and strict, that there is room in them only for themselves and people exactly like themselves; and hence comes much misery.

Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna Easter Day To Read: It slowly began to make sense, the bits began to fall into place. Something was happening and it made me cry;  for the first time in a long, long time I cried.  I went out into the night and stayed out. The clouds seemed to… Continue reading Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna – Easter Day

Yeah, but no, but yeah, but… Vicky Pollard does Easter Sermon for Easter Day – Sunday 20 April 2025 – All Saints, Kesgrave Text:  But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they came to the tomb, taking the spices that they had prepared.  (Luke 24v1) God give you peace my sisters… Continue reading Yeah, but no, but yeah, but… Vicky Pollard does Easter – A Sermon

Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna Day 40 – Holy Saturday  To Read: I wanted to say more, a whole lot more, but she wasn’t listening any more, just smiling.  The days burnt up like giant candles, and time melted, ran, and congealed into useless and hideous lumps. Two days after the funeral I… Continue reading Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna – Day 40 – Holy Saturday

Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna Day 39 – Good Friday To Read: It was a beautiful sunny day.  The street was full of kid noises.  Laughter drowned the sounds of marching feet, when suddenly the world fell to pieces.  One scream killed the laughter.  It was Jackie’s.  I turned around in time to catch her in my… Continue reading Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna – Day 39 – Good Friday

Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna Day 38 – Maundy Thursday  To Read: ‘Fynn, I love you.’  When Anna said that every word was shattered by the fullness of meaning she packed into it.  Her ‘I’ was a totality.  Whatever this ‘I’ was for Anna was packed tight with being.  Like the light that didn’t fray, Anna’s… Continue reading Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna – Day 38 – Maundy Thursday

Time hastens; therefore do to-day 
Whatever kindly deed you may.
Time flies, suns rise, and shadows fall; 
let it go by, lo! love is for ever over all.

Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna Day 37 – Wednesday in Holy Week  To Read: Every minute of every day Anna lived, she totally accepted her life, and in accepting life, accepted death.  Death was a fairly frequent topic of conversation with Anna – never morbid or anxious, simply something that would happen at… Continue reading Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna – Day 37

Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna Day 36 – Tuesday in Holy Week  To Read: MAYBE it was the fact that Anna and I had met at night that made the night-time so magic for us.  Perhaps it was because the night-time could be, and so often was, so surprising.  The multitudes of sights and… Continue reading Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna – Day 36

Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna Day 35 – Monday in Holy Week To Read: Anna searched for Mister God and her desire was for a better understanding of him.  Anna’s search for Mister God was serious but gay, earnest but light-hearted, reverent but impudent, and single-minded and multi-tracked.  That one and two made three… Continue reading Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna – Day 35