When someone close to us dies, we inevitably enter into a process of mourning. This is an involuntary, unavoidable and instinctive process. Our psyches and our bodies react to codes that are embedded in our subconscious and collective minds and which are completely beyond our control. Each person will go through his or her mourning […]
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Inherited Memories
I was looking up two words that define the feeling that permeates the first book of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time (or Remembrance of Things Past, as it is also known): Nostalgia, as defined by the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, “is pleasure and sadness that is caused by remembering something from the past and wishing that you […]
Dealing with Frustration
Today’s parents and educators have a difficult task ahead of them. And I say of today because it wasn’t until the early twentieth century that anyone paid very much attention to children. No one was too concerned about how the way children were being brought up would affect the kind of grownup people they would […]
In Search of Lost Time
After several years I have decided to once again try to read Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time or Remembrance of Things Past, as the title was originally translated. I don’t know if I’ll be able to complete such a feat, given that it consists of seven volumes and I have just begun reading […]
Things to Keep in a Treasure Trunk
The other day I was sitting with my grandson while he was doing his homework and one of the things he had to do was to ask three people to name something they considered important enough to be put away in a treasure trunk. When he asked me, I wanted to say that I would […]
On being creative
After several years I have returned to the world of manual creativity; of creating things with my hands (other than cooking and knitting, which I have previously commented on) – as opposed to creating things intellectually, a category under which I could include writing this blog. There are so many ways in which all of […]
We should never give up!!!
As long as we are in full possession of our faculties, no matter what our chronological age may be, we should not give up and say “I’m too old for this”… It all comes down to the way we decide to think and to live. We might easily still have twenty years ahead of us […]
Happy 2016!!!
I always enjoyed going to school… I don’t remember ever saying “I don’t feel like going today”, and, furthermore, I had a really good time!! I loved it when classes were about to start and I had all my new notebooks ready to be written on, my soft-lead pencils, my brand new erasers and, most […]
Christmas
Normally, I’m a very classical and traditional person as far as my way of dressing, my personal appearance and the way I decorate my home are concerned. Everything I have is almost eternal and things never seem to be out of date since they never make any fashion statements in the first place… But as […]
Morning person
I am undoubtedly a morning person, and I’m also extremely lucky to live near a park full of trees. This means I wake up very early every morning, listening to the singing of “frenetically happy” birds – as my friend Nora commented on the recording of their singing that I sent her. I need […]
Nora's Blog... Sixty and Still Going Strong!! 