http://beviant.blog.com Sat, 27 Dec 2008 14:22:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Our Christmas dinner last night went very well, the better for the fact that my daughter Pasley and her family were able to share it with us this year. They were in Ottawa with Jeff's family for the 25th, but we delayed our meal until Boxing Day to have them ... http://beviant.blog.com/2008/12/27/christmas-and-birthday-musings/ We celebrated Yule over the weekend, and all went well, thanks to some crafty work by my daughter and son-in-law, who had to deal with a sick baby, and to my husband, who cooked a wonderful Yule Eve dinner, then a Yule Morning breakfast, and then did all the dishes ... http://beviant.blog.com/2008/12/22/merry-yule/ After ranting to all and anyone who'd listen about this site, which I felt strongly about and which some people I told about it refused to even look at on line in their disgust at the mere idea of girls of thirteen being sold by their parents to older men, ... http://beviant.blog.com/2008/12/18/marry-our-daughters-site-is-a-prank-thank-goodness/ Today is Remembrance Day in Canada, the equivalent to Veterans' Day in the States, when many bloggers will remember "In Flanders Fields". I have been thinking, instead, of a poem by Rupert Brooke, who died very young in war after writing a handful of poems that indicated that he would ... http://beviant.blog.com/2008/11/11/the-great-lover-by-rupert-brooke/ On Sunday, November 2, 2008, we had a birthday party for my grand-daughter Tallis at our house. About 18 people---family and honorable aunt and uncle--came bearing potluck specials, and it was very cosy and pleasant. Tallis was at her best, smiling most of the time and looking adorable in a ... http://beviant.blog.com/2008/11/04/tallis-at-one/ Ah, how I love this time of year! The sky so blue that it looks like cobalt lacquer, the trees glowing gold as the sun shines through their leaves, little eddies of dead leaves underfoot, blown by the slightly brisk wind that reminds us gently that colder weather is coming. Here ... http://beviant.blog.com/2008/10/10/amish-chilly-day-chicken-soup/ Here's an interesting  article from The Guardian about a fuss in the UK about a poem.   "Top exam board asks schools to destroy book containing knife poem "  "Britain's biggest exam board has been accused of censorship after it removed a poem containing references to knife crime from the GCSE syllabus. Officials at ... http://beviant.blog.com/2008/09/08/a-poem-about-knife-crime/ Wee legs spread on the living room carpet,  In the warm morning sun, she sits there,  Her little flowered dress puffed about her,  Soft light on her coppery hair.  Quite random the items before her: Crinkly Ladybug, Soft Silky Heart,  Her Bumpy Blue Crescent, her “Sousie.”  She tastes each, she sets each apart.  Her pink sippy cup full ... http://beviant.blog.com/2008/08/19/tallis-at-almost-ten-months/ It has been a strange summer, one that hasn't felt much like summer to me. Not that I know any more what constitutes a real summer, now that I no longer lie on beaches or swim. I spend most of my time indoors, anyway. However, my ventures forth into the ... http://beviant.blog.com/2008/08/17/the-dog-days-of-summer/ LOST by David Waggoner Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside youAre not lost. Wherever you are is called Here,And you must treat it as a powerful stranger,Must ask permission to know it and be known.The forest breathes. Listen. It answers,I have made this place around you.If you leave it, ... http://beviant.blog.com/2008/08/17/presencethe-present/