About

A slightly rebellious girl just past 40 with three beautiful children, I have always loved beautiful things you can see, hear, touch – experience with all your senses. I have made a few tentative forays into the publishing world in the past but am completely new to sharing my thoughts with the world through blogging.

I love beautiful images and beautiful words. I love thinking about stuff (too much and too deeply, some people say), and I will be sharing some of my thoughts with you here. And I have recently taken up knitting, something I learned from my grandmother when I was young, and would like to share some of that with you as well.

I love the things that help open up your mind, enrich your understanding and deepen your compassion. That sounds rather grand but I have found – no, I am finding, slowly, tortuously and joyfully – that it is often the smallest things that are the most important in life.

While I hope I can contribute, in my own small way, to making the world a better place, this year I will be focusing on downsizing, enjoying the small gifts life has to offer, and learning to be frugal. Like many people I have lived much too largely for much too long and it is time to change. Partly due to necessity but also because in that life, the emphasis is on things that do not really matter – and I want my life to be about the things that really matter.

So on a more down to earth note, I will tell you that I have three beautiful children. I work as a freelance translator and love the challenge of reproducing the spirit of a text in another language. Being a freelancer allows me to spend a lot of time with my children, although it also means I am often at work very early in the morning and late at night. Between work, children, housekeeping ‘and all that’, I try to devote as much time as I can to friends, books and yarn. Who knows what other things might catch my eye, hands and thoughts in the coming year…

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