Or ‘just’ the alchemy of light and shadow and condensation through a Victorian stained glass door on New Year’s Eve.
I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year:
“Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown.”
And he replied:
“Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the Hand of God.
That shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way.”
So I went forth, and finding the Hand of God, trod gladly into the night…
From ‘God Knows’ by Minnie Louise Haskins
Slipping out for my last, long walk of 2018…
Wishing YOU a rainbow for the New Year. For everyone that passed this way in 2018 – I hope you come by in 2019… X
As always……Sweet words that make me think.
Best Wishes for 2019 to you and all who pass this way 😉
About an hour-to-midnight – and I’m home from my New Year’s Eve walkabout, roughly six miles with lots of stops. A lovely surprise to find you’ve been here – like magic. ‘appy Noo Yer to ‘e Peter – from deepest darkest Devon! X
…many thanks dear Melanie! That verse hung framed above my dear Parents’ bed in my infancy. Haven’t seen it for a long time. Many thanks for the reminder. Just back from a New Year’s day lunch + overnite with dear friends in York. Found a hornet’s nest of problems on getting back. One waves at them one by one.
~-and a very happy 2019 to you and all around! Cheers + love from Christopher
PS Spinoza is done and dusted, must only get upstairs to attend to comments from Nigel, an expert copy-editor. He thinks ‘Review of English Studies’ will find it OK for publishing. Now launched into a final article, on which more anon. In brief it’s the ‘Heathcliff’ problem…C
Great news about the ‘dusting’ dear Christopher – 2019 has got off to a SPINTASTIC start! X