Showing posts with label Easter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Easter. Show all posts

Thursday, 9 April 2015

Easter lunch - Mother's Milk Books Writing Prize Anthology 2013

Easter

My brother and I both fooled around with our phones. Now I can't double click to get hold of them. My mother had an idea to seat us facing each other, 2 versus 2, instead of having my father at one end of the table. The dynamics were more friendly, cosy even, this way. We had flowers at each end of the table.

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To prevent interrupting we waved a paper knife around, the talking stick. We didn't actually use it, but we were better than usual at taking turns to talk.

I made some mini films before lunch. Apparently there is a whole world of them out there on Vine. I thought I had thought of it myself. One of my mother's hands chopping potatoes, another of my brother's hands.

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While we had champagne upstairs I took photos of the mantle piece and bookshelves. It's an easy way to take all those items back home with me. One is of my brother aged 2, looking thoughtful on a park bench, and another of me aged 3, little feet sticking out and happily looking at a big French children's picture book.

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Mother's Milk Anthology - 'Parenting' - edited by Teika Bellamy

While H was having his 2nd driving lesson I stumbled on the Mother's Milk collection. I read most of it, flicking around the booklet, sitting on the floor. My poetry books are so hard to separate out into sections, so I read one instead. I am sure I recognise some poets' names from 52 in there.

Friday, 18 April 2014

Christmas Pudding on Easter Day?

I am at my parents' house. We had a very important discussion this evening over dinner: the menu for Easter Day Lunch. My father has it all sorted out, but wanted to know whether Christmas Pudding might be too much or not. He is already preparing a delicious strawberry ice-cream.

We decided it would be way too much and not right for guests from outside our immediate family! But having it in the evening would be fantastic. We laughed so much as we said to each other that it is clearly an old French custom to have such a thing for dinner. My mother's ancestry comes in very handy.

Saturday, 7 April 2012

Translating Easter

As T is unmoved by Christian explanations for things, I think around each festival to find an alternative way of finding meaning. So Easter is becoming a discussion in my mind about the death penalty, the legal system, the awkward position of authoritarian governors who are authorised to give the death penalty, the role of noisy public opinion.

Right now, this very minute, there is a human rights defender in Bahrain starting on day 60 of his hunger strike, Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja. He is also currently sentenced to life imprisonment.

We have have been discussing previous hunger strikers like the Suffragettes and suicide actions by Tibetan monks.

The phrases 'Giving your life for ...' and 'Devoting your life to ...' are used in many different ways. I hadn't been so aware of how much people do for others until the Arab Spring started.
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