Auspicious Coincidence? …
Posted by Sarah - 22/12/03 at 09:12:35 pm
There are days when things just seem to happen naturally - what I think my father would call an Auspicious Coincidence. Today is Winter Solstice, a Buddhist holiday I remember celebrating when I was younger (having been raised in the path of many Buddhist Hippies). And so, it seemed appropriate that Rick should bring home a wonderful find.
Rick was just browsing when he came across this statue in the back of a small imports shop. It is carved from a single piece of quartz, and has characteristically Tibetan features and decoration - including a sun wheel on the chest. The merchant said it was from 1940’s Tibet. (We assume that can only mean “plundered by the Chinese and sold for export”.) Fortunately, it has arrived in our hands for safekeeping, and we will gladly house and protect it. How amazing and unexpected!
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Will Shovel for Coffee …
Posted by Rick - 06/12/03 at 11:12:44 am
Last year we got a ton of snow, and believe me, we enjoyed it. But I still remember saying to Sarah that it would be the last time we would be able to stand by and watch other people shovel it for us.
So last night while we cuddled up in front of the fire, I couldn’t help but think about the snow I was going to have to move the next day. It didn’t worry me, and it certainly didn’t keep me from enjoying our first fire, but it was at the back of my mind.
Luckily, we bought a house that doesn’t have much of a walkway—and no driveway at all, yet—so it wasn’t too much effort to shovel our walk and the sidewalk in front of the house. In fact, it was so easy, I shoveled our next door neighbor’s walk as well.
My reward? Not that I needed one, but Sarah had delicious pancakes and coffee waiting for me.
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