Penrith Beacon

Throwing sticks for Fly.
I was so looking forward to getting to the end of Friday I was completely phased today! Managed to get to the post office and a book sent off to young Luc and then caught up with craggy and Fly for a walk up onto the Beacon. I’ve added a seasonal extra...possibly one of the more remote decorated Christmas trees!

Oh, and I’ve just had a message to say it’s a blip day...not sure how many it is but it’s been a life saver. What more can I say. Blip wouldn’t be blip without you lot. Thank you all for looking in and your constant kindness x

Another lovely poem by Rilke from Radio Four’s Winter Solstice Poems...

Be ahead of all parting, as though it already were
behind you, like the winter that has just gone by.
For among these winters there is one so endlessly winter
that only by wintering through it all will your heart survive.

Be forever dead in Eurydice-more gladly arise
into the seamless life proclaimed in your song.
Here, in the realm of decline, among momentary days,
be the crystal cup that shattered even as it rang.

Be-and yet know the great void where all things begin,
the infinite source of your own most intense vibration,
so that, this once, you may give it your perfect assent.

To all that is used-up, and to all the muffled and dumb
creatures in the world's full reserve, the unsayable sums,
joyfully add yourself, and cancel the count.