Gillian Monks's Blog, page 11
February 13, 2021
Happy Valentine’s Day In Lockdown!
One doesn’t have to confine Valentine celebrations to those who are a couple/in a relationship. I have always liked to surprise my friends and family with little (home made) cards and treats at this time of year. It is a chance to also honour love and friendship in its wider sense. Perhaps this year, while […]
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February 1, 2021
Happy Imbolc/Gwyl Ffraid
Greetings – and very best wishes to you for a truly inspiring and positive celebration of the start of spring! No, not the meteorological beginning to the season, or the official date you will find on the calendar but the time each year which roughly corresponds with what is taking place in the natural world. […]
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January 16, 2021
My Free Gift To You All
I am offering the January module in the on-line digital cycle of Walking With The Goddess for free. It is my wholehearted gift to all those who might wish to complete or newly begin this exciting adventure. As the years turn and the 2020 cycle reaches its conclusion and the 2021 cycle just begins, this […]
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January 9, 2021
‘If It Were Done When ‘Tis Done’…
…’Then ’twere well it were done quickly’! So the quotation from Shakespeare goes. In other words, don’t put off till tomorrow what you can do now, this minute, today. As January progresses our family Christmas unfurls into more general winter celebration with a couple of birthdays of close family members, Distaff Day, Plough Monday, the […]
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January 6, 2021
Can I Get To Number One???
If you have bought or read my new book, ‘Spring In Your Step’ and enjoyed it, could I ask you to do something in return? Could you please go and leave a review on Amazon? Just a few words will do – and you don’t even have to have read the whole book. the more […]
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December 31, 2020
A Happy New Year!
Greetings to all my dear friends and readers! As I sit here typing and talking to you the sun is streaming through the window but the mountains are covered in glistening snow! We all know what kind of year 2020 has been, so I am not going to state the obvious again. Much more important […]
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December 28, 2020
Marking Time Till New Year
How do you spend your time between Christmas and New Year? Some of us have to return to work, but many of us are on holiday, (this year, enforced as well as voluntary). I was listening to the radio this morning and was concerned to hear the presenter saying that he felt at a loss […]
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December 27, 2020
Cast Your Bread Upon The Water
Around the turn of the millennium my family and I joined in with Operation Christmas Child, originated by a couple in Wrexham and eventually taken over by the charity Samaritan’s Purse. The whole concept is to decorate and fill a shoebox with suitable items for a child between the ages of 2-4, 5 – 10, […]
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December 20, 2020
Wishing You A Blessed Solstice!
For many of us, this isn’t just the darkest time of the year in physical terms – it is a veritable dark night of the soul as many of us struggle to adjust to yet more government restrictions and Covid-driven changes of plan which threaten to turn our family and friends focused Midwinter celebrations into […]
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December 11, 2020
Who Or What Is The Sprit of Christmas?
When we are children, we talk about Father Christmas. Who is he? A sacred being? A god? A real person? A figment of our fertile imaginations? Contrary to many varying – and sometimes quite outrageous – suggestions, it is most likely that this figure of sacred folk memory has evolved out of an amalgamation of […]
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